Aristotle in China language, categories, and translation
In this book, Robert Wardy, a philosopher and classicist, turns his attention to the relation between language and thought. He explores this huge topic in an analysis of linguistic relativism, with specific reference to a reading of the ming li t'an ('The Investigation of the Theory of Nam...
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge Univ. Press
2000
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| Schriftenreihe: | Needham Research Institute studies
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- The China syndrome: language, logical form, translation Guidance and constraint On the very idea of translation Whorf's hypothesis Deflationary philosophical anthropology Von Humboldt's legacy Case-study 1: conditionals Case-study 2: Chinese is a list Logical form Against 'logical' translation Why form might matter Procrustean logic Case-study 3: being Case-study 4: truth Case-study 5: nouns and ontology Aristotelian whispers What's in a name? Disputation, discrimination, inference The need for logic Finite and infinite The simple and the complex All the things there are How many questions? Relatively speaking Particular and general Translating the untranslatable