公孙龙子（白马论）

简介

A short text under Gongsun Long’s name, of which six chapters survive from a larger work; the first is a later account of him, and the authenticity of some others is disputed. The best-known chapter, “On the White Horse”, is a dialogue between an objector and a defender of the thesis that “a white horse is not a horse”. Other chapters deal with “pointing and things” (how names refer), “hard and white” (whether a stone’s hardness and whiteness can be separated) and “names and actualities”. Whether these are serious analyses of language, logical puzzles or sophistry has been debated since Xunzi; modern interpreters such as A. C. Graham and Chad Hansen proposed rival readings, Hansen in terms of mass nouns.

阅读全文

• Wikisource (中文)
• Chinese Text Project (中文)

免费全文，常为较早的版本或译本