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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      13 April 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511483097
      9780521028479
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483097
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      Dimensions:
      (246 x 189 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.337kg, 184 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science, Classical Studies, Philosophy: General Interest, Classical Studies (General), Philosophy
      Series:
      Needham Research Institute Studies (2)
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    Subjects:
    History of Science, Classical Studies, Philosophy: General Interest, Classical Studies (General), Philosophy
    Series:
    Needham Research Institute Studies (2)
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    In this book, Robert Wardy, a philosopher and classicist, turns his attention to the relation between language and thought. He explores this huge topic in an analysis of linguistic relativism, with specific reference to a reading of the ming li t'an ('The Investigation of the Theory of Names'), a seventeenth-century Chinese translation of Aristotle's Categories. Throughout his investigation, Wardy addresses important questions. Do the basis structures of language shape the major thought-patterns of its native speakers? Could philosophy be guided and constrained by the language in which it is done? What factors, from grammar and logic to cultural and religious expectations, influence translation? And does Aristotle survive rendition into Chinese intact? His answers will fascinate philosphers, Sinologists, classicists, linguists and anthropologists, and will make a major contribution to the existing literature.

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    '… we in Chinese studies clearly owe a considerable debt to Robert Wardy, and hope that he will find other examples of cultural intercommunication between the classical tradition of Western philosophy and China with which to beguile our increasingly rare moments of reflection.'

    Source: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

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