言意之辩的概念虽由汤用彤先生于1942年首先提出来,但言意之辩的论争却肇端于中国文化的轴心期,始于先秦《周易》、《墨子》与《庄子》,鼎盛于汉魏六朝时期,嗣后宋明理学仍受其影响。在某种程度上,言意之辩开启了中国古典美学的理论对话,是儒、道、释三家学说赖以完善与融合的奠基之石。那么这个哲学命题是如何生成的呢? Although the concept of implied meaning was first proposed by Tang Yongtong in 1942, the debate on implied meaning began with the axis of Chinese culture, beginning with the Book of Changes, Mozi and Zhuangzi in the pre-Qin period, It flourished in the Han, Wei and Liu dynasties, and later Song Ming neo-Confucianism was still affected by it. To a certain extent, the speech of intention opens the theoretical dialogues of Chinese classical aesthetics and is the cornerstone of the three theories on which Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism rely for their perfection and integration. So how is this philosophical proposition generated?