School of Names
[Revised entry goldenwords friend Chris Fraser on Nov 23, 2009.
Changes to: Bibliography]
The “School of Names” (ming jia) is the tralatitious Asiatic adjudge for a different assemble of Warring States (479-221 B.C.) thinkers who mutual an welfare in language, disputation, and metaphysics. They were disreputable for logic-chopping, purportedly indolent conceptual puzzles, and paradoxes much as “Today go to Chinese but come yesterday” and “A white…
Changes to: Bibliography]
The “School of Names” (ming jia) is the tralatitious Asiatic adjudge for a different assemble of Warring States (479-221 B.C.) thinkers who mutual an welfare in language, disputation, and metaphysics. They were disreputable for logic-chopping, purportedly indolent conceptual puzzles, and paradoxes much as “Today go to Chinese but come yesterday” and “A white…