This book demonstrates how, through cross-tradition engagement, insights from the Chinese philosophical tradition can work with relevant resources from modern logic and contemporary philosophy to enhance our understanding of two basic principles of logic: the law of identity and the law of non-contradiction.
The law of identity and the law of non-contradiction are widely accepted principles in logic. However, there are disagreements as to how to understand and treat the genuine structures and contents of these two basic principles. This book provides a holistic inquiry into these principles for the sake of enhancing our understanding and treatment of them from the vantage point of cross-tradition engagement. It begins by offering a philosophical interpretation of three classical texts in Chinese philosophy in their contexts: the Bai-Ma-Lun in Gongsun Longs texts, the Xiao-Qu in the Later Mohist texts, and Lao Zi's Dao-De-Jing in classical Daoism. The author explains an innovative dual-track characterization of relative identity that is informed by relevant resources from these texts as well as Western philosophical traditions. He shows how this cross-tradition engaging approach can make constructive and significant contributions to the jointly concerned fundamental issues of identity and reference in logic, philosophy of logic and language, metaphysics, as well as philosophy more generally.
Cross-Tradition Engagement on the Laws of Logic will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy.
This book demonstrates how, through cross-tradition engagement, insights from the Chinese philosophical tradition can work with relevant resources from modern logic and contemporary philosophy to enhance our understanding of two basic principles of logic: the law of identity and the law of non-contradiction.
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This is a welcome study both in philosophical logic and comparative philosophy. It provides some interesting and provocative ideas which would stimulate further studies. It also enriches mutual understanding between the Chinese and the Western philosophical traditions.
Yiu-ming Fung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Introduction Part 1: On Gongsun Longs, Later Mohist, and Lao Zis
Approaches to the Two Laws of Logic: A Holistic Philosophical Interpretation
from the Vantage Point of Double Reference and Relative Identity
1. On
Gongsun Longs Approach to the Two Laws of Logic: Look at the Alleged
White-Horse-Not-Horse Paradox Dissolved through the Joint Point of Double
Reference and Relative Identity
2. On Later Mohist Approach to the Two Laws
of Logic: Approaching Parallel Inference with Semantic Sensitivity to
Double-Reference Identity
3. On Lao Zis Approach to the Two Laws of Logic:
Dissolving the Alleged Ultimate-Unspeakable Paradox from a Holistic Vantage
Point of Double-Reference Identity Part 2: An Enhanced Account of Relative
Identity and Refined Characterizations of the Two Basic Laws of Logic: From
the Vantage Point of Cross-Tradition Engagement
4. An Enhanced Account of
Relative Identity: Double-Reference Starting Point and Dual-Track Feature
5.
A Refined Characterization of the Law of Identity: from the Vantage Point of
the Enhanced Account of Relative Identity
6. A Refined Characterization of
the Principle of Non-Contradiction: From Aristotle and the GSL-LM-LZ Approach
to a Holistic Double-Reference Vantage Point Appendixes Appendix 1: An
Expanded Predicate Logic Account with Enhanced Dual-Track Relative Identity
Sign, Collective-Generic Operator and Multiple-layer Domain of Reference
Appendix 2: Comparative Chronology of Philosophers in Chinese and Western
Philosophical Traditions Appendix 3: Notes on Transcription and Guide to
Pronunciation
Bo Mou is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University, California, USA. He is the author of the monograph books Substantive Perspectivism (2009), Semantic-Truth Approaches in Chinese Philosophy: A Unifying Pluralist Account (2019), and Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy: A Constructive-Engagement Account (2020). He is also a contributing editor for History of Chinese Philosophy (2009) and Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy (2018).
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