Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy deals with debates surrounding the concept of truth in early Chinese thought, from the earliest periods through to the Han dynasty. Alexus …
Offers the first focused study of the shifei debates of the Warring States period in ancient China and challenges the imposition of Western conceptual categories onto these debates …
C Fraser - History and Philosophy of Logic, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The article proposes an account of the prevailing classical Chinese conception of reasoning and argumentation that grounds it in a semantic theory and epistemology centered on …
The “School of Names”(ming jia) is the traditional Chinese label for a diverse group of Warring States (479–221 BCE) thinkers who shared an interest in language, disputation …
This book is a study of the methodological, metaphysical, and epistemological work of the Eastern Han Dynasty period scholar Wang Chong. It presents Wang's philosophical thought …
The Mohist Canons are a set of brief statements on a variety of philosophical and other topics by anonymous members of the Mohist school, an influential philosophical, social, and …
This book explains a distinctive pluralist account of truth, jointly-rooted perspectivism ('JRP'for short). This explanation unifies various representative while philosophically …
The question of whether or not early Chinese philosophers had a concept of truth has been the topic of some scholarly debate over the past few decades. The present essay offers a …
C Fraser - Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2023 - Springer
This essay argues that the third-century BC Ruist “masters” text Xúnzǐ presents a sophisticated approach to semantics and epistemology in which a concern with truth is at …