Constructing a Logically Self-consistent Academic Concept System——The Academic Trend of Research on Chinese Political Thought History
Consolidating the logical foundation of Chinese political thought research is a systematic project,including many approaches and links such as systematically retrieving literature,improving factual state-ments,clarifying academic definitions,and avoiding logical flaws.Academic concept innovation is the only way to academic innovation and theoretical innovation.The basic principles for perfecting and innovating the academic concept system are to comprehensively,systematically and deeply study objective things,accu-rately reveal their essential attributes and other unique attributes,so that the definition of academic con-cepts match the objective things they refer to.We must list inducting,summarizing and refining new school concepts as an extremely important academic topic,eliminate the logical flaws of important academic con-cepts as much as possible,and innovate the academic discourse system.The factual and logical foundations of Chinese political thought research are both in urgent need of consolidation.Correctly creating,defining and using a number of crucial academic concepts is the only way to perfect and innovate Chinese political thought research.