8. A New Interpretation of ‘Báimǎlùn’ (Discourse on White and Horse)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface and Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. The Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ and Other Neglected Texts – Aligning Philosophical and Philological Perspectives: An Introduction 1
5. I. History
6. Traditions of Scholarship in China
7. 1. The Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ: A Historical Overview 25
8. 2. Notes on the Relationship between the Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ and the Dialectical Chapters of the Mòzǐ 45
9. 3. The ‘Discourse on the White Horse’: A Concrete Analytical Philosophy of Language – with a Coda on the Authenticity of the Received Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ 87
10. II. Philosophy
11. Contemporary Analytic Approaches
12. 4. Reference and Ontology in the Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ 119
13. 5. How Gōngsūn Lóng’s Double-Reference Thought in His “White Horse Not Horse” Argumentation Can Engage with Fregean and Kripkean Approaches to the Issue of Reference 169
14. Philosophical Readings of the Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ
15. 6. Place as a Category in the ‘Treatise on Name and Reality’ (Míngshí lùn名實論) 207
16. 7. A New Interpretation of the Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ’s ‘Zhǐwù lùn’ (Discourse on Pointings and Things) and ‘Míngshí lùn’ (Discourse on Names and Actualities) 241
17. 8. A New Interpretation of ‘Báimǎlùn’ (Discourse on White and Horse) 289
18. III. Philology
19. Perspectives on Language and Terminology
20. 9. Logically Significant Words in the Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ 313
21. 10. Linguistic Affinites of the Yǐnwénzǐ Text in the Light of Basic Corpus Data 347
22. 11. Gōngsūn Lóng and the Zhuāngzǐ: On Classifying (Declassifying) Things Zhǐ (Qí) Wù Lùn 指〔齊〕物論 399
23. 12. Buddhist Murmurs? – Another Look at the Composition of the Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ 429
24. Indices
25. 1. Terms 559
26. 2. Source Texts 569
27. 3. Persons 572