Aristotle in China : language, categories, and translation / / Robert Wardy [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Wardy Robert |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 170 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 181/.11 |
Collana | Needham Research Institute studies |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Chinese
Chinese language Language and languages - Philosophy |
ISBN |
1-107-11918-9
1-280-42121-5 0-511-48309-0 0-511-32747-1 0-511-17329-6 0-511-15235-3 0-521-77118-8 0-511-04944-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The China syndrome: language, logical form, translation -- Guidance and constraint -- On the very idea of translation -- Whorf's hypothesis -- Deflationary philosophical anthropology -- Von Humboldt's legacy -- Case-study 1: conditionals -- Case-study 2: Chinese is a list -- Logical form -- Against 'logical' translation -- Why form might matter -- Procrustean logic -- Case-study 3: being -- Case-study 4: truth -- Case-study 5: nouns and ontology -- Aristotelian whispers -- What's in a name? -- Disputation, discrimination, inference -- The need for logic -- Finite and infinite -- The simple and the complex -- All the things there are -- How many questions? -- Relatively speaking -- Particular and general -- Translating the untranslatable. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454563003321 |
Wardy Robert | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Aristotle in China : language, categories, and translation / / Robert Wardy [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Wardy Robert |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 170 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 181/.11 |
Collana | Needham Research Institute studies |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Chinese
Chinese language Language and languages - Philosophy |
ISBN |
1-107-11918-9
1-280-42121-5 0-511-48309-0 0-511-32747-1 0-511-17329-6 0-511-15235-3 0-521-77118-8 0-511-04944-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The China syndrome: language, logical form, translation -- Guidance and constraint -- On the very idea of translation -- Whorf's hypothesis -- Deflationary philosophical anthropology -- Von Humboldt's legacy -- Case-study 1: conditionals -- Case-study 2: Chinese is a list -- Logical form -- Against 'logical' translation -- Why form might matter -- Procrustean logic -- Case-study 3: being -- Case-study 4: truth -- Case-study 5: nouns and ontology -- Aristotelian whispers -- What's in a name? -- Disputation, discrimination, inference -- The need for logic -- Finite and infinite -- The simple and the complex -- All the things there are -- How many questions? -- Relatively speaking -- Particular and general -- Translating the untranslatable. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779921603321 |
Wardy Robert | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Aristotle in China : language, categories, and translation / / Robert Wardy |
Autore | Wardy Robert |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 170 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 181/.11 |
Collana | Needham Research Institute studies |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Chinese
Chinese language Language and languages - Philosophy |
ISBN |
1-107-11918-9
1-280-42121-5 0-511-48309-0 0-511-32747-1 0-511-17329-6 0-511-15235-3 0-521-77118-8 0-511-04944-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The China syndrome: language, logical form, translation -- Guidance and constraint -- On the very idea of translation -- Whorf's hypothesis -- Deflationary philosophical anthropology -- Von Humboldt's legacy -- Case-study 1: conditionals -- Case-study 2: Chinese is a list -- Logical form -- Against 'logical' translation -- Why form might matter -- Procrustean logic -- Case-study 3: being -- Case-study 4: truth -- Case-study 5: nouns and ontology -- Aristotelian whispers -- What's in a name? -- Disputation, discrimination, inference -- The need for logic -- Finite and infinite -- The simple and the complex -- All the things there are -- How many questions? -- Relatively speaking -- Particular and general -- Translating the untranslatable. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828952703321 |
Wardy Robert | ||
Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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