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Aristotle in China : language, categories, and translation / Robert Wardy.

By: Contributor(s): Language: engchi Series: Needham Research Institute studies ; 2.Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.Description: x, 170 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0521771188
  • 9780521771184
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 181/.11 21
  • 401 21
LOC classification:
  • B127.L35 W37 2000
Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks B127.L35 W37 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available TBC00000129

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-165) and index.

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.

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