Standards and Reference in Early Chinese Philosophy of Language : Mohist Concepts, Practices, and Texts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blake, Season, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Investigates early Chinese philosophy of language though the concept of 'fa'.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Citations of Chinese Texts

Introduction

Tasks of a Philosopher of Language

Tasks of a Historian of Philosophy

A Very Brief History

Chapter Summaries

Chapter 1: Standards and Classification in Early China

The Diverse Uses of Standards

The Mohist Definition of Fa Captures the Usage Above: Standards Determine Kind Membership and Serve as the Basis for Judgment

Fa in Legal Reasoning

Similarity, Kinds, and Features

Additional Note: Three Standards for Yan

Additional Note: Makeham on Names and Actuality

Chapter 2: Select Linguistic Activities

Disputation

Giving Examples ( ju) and Pointing (指 zhi)

Methods for Identifying and Resolving Disagreements

Chapter 3: Standards-Based Critiques of Language

The Paradoxes of Hui Shi

The Zhuangzi

Use of Shared Conceptions of Language

Same and Different

Standards

Our Apparent Lack of Metaknowledge Supports These Points about Standards

Unresolvable Disagreements and the Standards for "shi"

Xunzi and Rectifying Names

Chapter 4: Reference in the Mohist Texts

The Need for Shared Norms for a Theory of Reference

Kinds and Disputation in Mohist Philosophy of Language

The Mohists as Providing a Theory of Reference

Norms of Disputation Serve as a Critique of Sophistry, and Provide a Kind of Theory of Reference

Other Accounts of the Mohists on Reference

Chapter 5: The Mohist Theory of Communication

Communication

Examples of Communication

Coming to Know What Was Not Known

By Virtue of What Was Already Known: The Shared Beliefs of the Interlocutors

Features of Reference and Communication

Theories of Reference and the Mohist Discussions of Language.

Objections: Why We Might Read the Mohists as Explicitly Discussing Reference

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Bibliography

Index.

ISBN:

1-350-08514-6

1-350-08512-X

9781350085121

OCLC:

1552791289