Intro -- Ironies of Oneness and Difference -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Rethinking Same and Different -- Coherence and Li: Plan and Method of this Book and its Sequel -- Chapter One: Essences, Universals, and Omnipresence: Absolute Sameness and Difference -- Essences, Universals, Categories, Ideas: Simple Location and the Disjunction of Same and Different in Mainstream Western Philosophy -- Same and Different in form and Matter -- Two Opposite Derivations of the Omnipresent -- Chapter Two: What is Coherence?: Chinese Paradigms -- Coherence as Opposed to Law, Rule, Principle, Pattern: Harmony Versus Repeatability -- Is White Horse Horse? -- Qian Mu's Pendulum -- Ironic and Non-Ironic Coherence -- Chapter Three: Non‑Ironic Coherence and Negotiable Continuity -- Coherence and Omniavailability of Value in Confucius and Mencius -- Coherence and Heaven in the Analects -- Ritual Versus Law: Cultural Grammar -- Rectification of Names: Negotiated Identity as a Function of Ritual -- Classes and Types in Mencius -- Omnipresence in Mencius -- Transition to Ironic Coherence: Qi‑Omnipresence and the Empty Center in Pre‑Ironic Proto‑Daoism -- Chapter Four: Ironic Coherence and the Discovery of the " Yin" -- The Laozi Tradition: Desiring W/holes -- Overview of Ironic Coherence in the Laozi -- The Five Meanings of the Unhewn: Omnipresence and |