The present article introduces one of the most interesting philosophic school of ancient China, namely the School of names or the Nomenalist school. In many aspects, their discussions can be compared to the foundations of Western formal logic. However, they follow different approaches: the nomenalist philosophers were namely not primarily interested in the laws of cognition, but rather in its concrete applicability, i.e. in the art of “proper” reasoning as a precondition of precise expressions. The representatives of this school have thus laid stress upon modes of expression and semantic connotations of notions, on categorizations, the structuring and definitions that are written in the form of disputes. Thrugh the analyses of the works written by the three most significant representatives of this philosophic current, the author aims to surpass the prejudices that are still prevailing in Western philosophy and according to which ancient Chinese philosophy was exclusively based upon moral and proto-theological discourses.Pričujoči članek predstavlja eno od najzanimivejših filozofskih šol kitajske antike, namreč Šolo imen ali Šolo nomenalistov. Razprave te šole nas v marsičem spominjajo na osnove zahodne formalne logike, vendar izhajajo iz drugačne osnove: nomenalistov namreč niso toliko zanimale zakonitosti mišljenja, kot njihova konkretna aplikativnost, torej umetnost »pravilnega« mišljenja kot predpogoj natančnejšega izražanja. Zato so predstavniki te šole posvečali veliko pozornosti izrazni obliki in semantičnim konotacijam pojmov, kategorizacijam, razčlenitvam in definicijam, ki so zapisane v obliki disputov. Skozi analizo treh najpomembnejših predstavnikov te idejne struje avtorica poskuša preseči na zahodu še vedno razširjene predsodke o tem, da je antična kitajska filozofija temeljila zgolj na moralnih in proto-teoloških diskurzih.
 
