Aristotle in China : language, categories, and translation / Robert Wardy.
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
- Philosophy, Chinese
- Chinese language
- Aristotle. Categoriae
- Language and languages -- Philosophy
- Aristotle, 384-322 B.C
- Aristote -- Traductions chinoises
- Sapir-Whorf, Hypothèse de
- Chinois (Langue)
- Taal
- Denken
- Categoriae (Aristoteles)
- Vertalingen
- Chinees
- Aristote (0384-0322 av. J.-C.). Catégories
- Chinois (langue) -- Traduction
- Sapir-Whorf, Hypothèse de
- Aristoteles
- Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese
- Antike
- Sprachphilosophie
- China
- 181/.11 21
- 401 21
- B127.L35 W37 2000
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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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