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Xuanxue (Chinese: 玄學) or Neotaoism is a sub-discipline of Confucianism and Taoism, its main theme is to study the very nature of being, similar to ontology while not being the Chinese counterpart of it. The name 玄 means the meta-, deep, profound; 學 is study. Literally speaking, Xuanxue is the study of the deep, profound or meta-nature of being or not being, Tao, etc.
Among its scholars are Wang Bi and Guo Xiang.
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