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Master Gongsun Long: A White Horse Is Not a Horse
A white horse is not a horse. With that famous paradox Gongsun Long, the most celebrated logician of ancient China, set the courts of the Warring States arguing. The surviving chapters of his book are short, dense dialogues on names and things: whether whiteness and hardness can both belong to a stone, how a name points to a thing, what change is, and why a white horse is not a horse. Mocked by Confucians and Taoists alike as hair-splitting, they are now read as the closest early China came to analytic philosophy of language. This complete new English translation gives all six surviving chapters, with the traditional account of Gongsun Long's life and his debate with Kong Chuan, in clear modern English.
