In a message dated 11/1/2001 1:25:27 PM Central Standard Time, jcowan@reutershealth.com writes:
This, BTW, is why Chinese philosophy very early had the insight Well, you can get a small war on this one. As the argument is developed in Kung-sun Lung and the Mohists, it does not seem to fit that pattern but another one, roughly about the correct interpretation of a two word string (? bao ma? blanu xirma), which is indistingusihable in the Chinese of the time (at least) from a conjoint _expression_ (xirma bakni in the early days of Pretty Little Girls School, now xirma je bakni). Others tell other tales -- including the mass noun one, which makes sense but doees not fit the actual arguments well -- so this is not definitive. Always good for a row at Chinese Philosophy meeting though. |