Correlative thinking is a species of spontaneous thinking grounded in informal and ad hoc analogical procedures presupposing both association and differentiation.
Thinking that is logical or rational emphasizes the explanatory capacity of physical causes and is based on analytical, dialectical, and analogical argumentation. Chinese thought, in contrast, is based on an analogy type that may be referred to as "correlative thinking." In classical Chinese "cosmologies" as well as, less significantly, among the classical Greeks, correlative thinking refers to the correlation of image or concept clusters linked by meaningful disposition rather than physical causality.
A type of spontaneous thinking known as correlative thinking is based on impromptu and ad hoc analogical methods that assume correlation and difference. Instead of widely held beliefs about causal necessity, this mode of thought uses shared cultural and societal patterns as its regulative aspect.
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