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Subject(s)

• Li. [Browse]
• Philosophy, Chinese [Browse]
• Truth—Coherence theory [Browse]

Series

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture [More in this series]

Summary note

Explores the development of Chinese thought, highlighting its concern with questions of coherence.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Intro
• Ironies of Oneness and Difference
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Rethinking Same and Different
• Coherence and Li: Plan and Method of this Book and its Sequel
• Chapter One: Essences, Universals, and Omnipresence: Absolute Sameness and Difference
• Essences, Universals, Categories, Ideas: Simple Location and the Disjunction of Same and Different in Mainstream Western Philosophy
• Same and Different in form and Matter
• Two Opposite Derivations of the Omnipresent
• Chapter Two: What is Coherence?: Chinese Paradigms
• Coherence as Opposed to Law, Rule, Principle, Pattern: Harmony Versus Repeatability
• Is White Horse Horse?
• Qian Mu's Pendulum
• Ironic and Non-Ironic Coherence
• Chapter Three: Non‑Ironic Coherence and Negotiable Continuity
• Coherence and Omniavailability of Value in Confucius and Mencius
• Coherence and Heaven in the Analects
• Ritual Versus Law: Cultural Grammar
• Rectification of Names: Negotiated Identity as a Function of Ritual
• Classes and Types in Mencius
• Omnipresence in Mencius
• Transition to Ironic Coherence: Qi‑Omnipresence and the Empty Center in Pre‑Ironic Proto‑Daoism
• Chapter Four: Ironic Coherence and the Discovery of the " Yin"
• The Laozi Tradition: Desiring W/holes
• Overview of Ironic Coherence in the Laozi
• The Five Meanings of the Unhewn: Omnipresence and Ironic Coherence in the Laozi
• Zhuangzi's Wild Card: Thing as Perspective
• Using the Wild Card
• The Wild Card Against Both Objective Truth and Subjective Solipsism
• Conclusion to Chapter Four: Ironic Coherence
• Chapter Five: Non‑Ironic Responses to Ironic Coherence in Xunzi and the Record of Ritual
• Xunzi and the Regulation of Sameness and Difference
• Omnipresence and Coherence in Xunzi
• Two Texts from the Record of Ritual (Liji): "The Great Learning" and "The Doctrine of the Mean".
• Chapter Six: The Yin‑Yang Compromise
• Yin‑Yang Theism in Dong Zhongshu: The Metastasis of Harmony and Irony
• An Alternate Yin‑Yang Divination System: Yang Xiong's Taixuanjing
• Conclusion and Summary: Toward Li
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

1-4384-4290-4

OCLC

• 817565541
• 859674293

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