聶豹生於明代中晚期，嚮往王陽明之學，是陽明死後拜師的門生，黃宗羲《明儒學案》將之列入江右王門學者，因不滿王門中王畿的「良知現成」說，貽誤學者，墮於狂禪，於是首倡異議，在堅守陽明學的基礎上，兼採宋學，修正王學，帶動後學，使得陽明之道賴以不墜，穩定了王學的學術地位。

Nie Bao, born in the middle/late period of the Ming Dynasty, followed Wang Yang-Ming's theory and respected Wang, who had been dead in Nie's time, as his teacher. In the book "Biographies of Confucian Scholars in the Ming Dynasty" Huang Zong-Xi categorized him into the Jiang-You School. Nie Bao disagreed with the theory of existent conscience from Wang Ji, another scholar of Wang Yang-Ming's doctrine, which misled pedants to rampant Zen. Therefore as the first dissentient Nie Bao rectified Wang Yang-Ming's theory on the basis of its original spirit by integrating academic thoughts of the Song Dynasty, leading descendent scholars to stabilize the status of Wang Yang-Ming's discipline in the academia.