This paper studies Bernard Faure's ”Bodhidharma as Textual and Religious Paradigm” (1986) and John R. McRae's ”Looking at Lineage: A Different Way of Presenting Chan Buddhism” (2000). In addition to wrong understanding/use of textual, and the confusion of concepts, there are both fallacies of ”straw man” and pragmatics based on the post-modern conceptual/linguistic framework. Moreover, from a broader perspective, we can find that the logical argument research and proposition coding would be useful to improve the problems solving of contemporary Zen studies.