Robert Wardy, Wardy Robert

Aristotle in China

Language, Categories and Translation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The author explores the relation between language and thought, referring to a Chinese translation of Aristotle's Categories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780521028479
• ISBN-10: 0521028477
• Artikelnr.: 22365472

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. The China Syndrome: Language, Logical Form, Translation: 1. Introduction
2. Guidance and constraint
3. On the very idea of translation
4. Case-study 1: conditionals
5. Case-study 2: Chinese is a list
6. Logical form
7. Case-study 3: being
8. Case-study 4: truth
9. Case-study 5: nouns and ontology
10. Conclusion
Part II. Aristotelian whispers: 11. Introduction
12. What's in a name?
13. Disputation, discrimination, inference
14. The need for logic
15. Finite and infinite
16. The simple and the complex
17. All the things there are
18. How many questions? 19. Relatively speaking
20. Particular and general
21. Translating the untranslatable
Epilogue
Glossary
References
Index.