TWO SYLLOGISMS IN THE MOZI: CHINESE LOGIC AND LANGUAGE

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
BYEONG-UK YI
Keyword(s):  
Standard Form ◽  
The Other ◽  
Valid Argument ◽  
Linguistic Differences ◽  
Argument Form ◽  
Chinese Counterpart ◽  
The One ◽  
Chinese And English ◽  
Chinese Logic

AbstractThis article examines two syllogistic arguments contrasted in an ancient Chinese book, the Mozi, which expounds doctrines of the Mohist school of philosophers. While the arguments seem to have the same form, one of them (the one-horse argument) is valid but the other (the two-horse argument) is not. To explain this difference, the article uses English plural constructions to formulate the arguments. Then it shows that the one-horse argument is valid because it has a valid argument form, the plural cousin of a standard form of valid categorical syllogisms (Plural Barbara), and argues that the two-horse argument involves equivocal uses of a key predicate (the Chinese counterpart of ‘have four feet’) that has the distributive/nondistributive ambiguity. In doing so, the article discusses linguistic differences between Chinese and English and explains why the logic of plural constructions is applicable to Chinese arguments that involve no plural constructions.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuhui Hu
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Diachronic Change ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Motion Event ◽  
Applicative Constructions ◽  
The One ◽  
Chinese And English

This chapter summarizes the major points developed throughout the book. The theoretical points of the syntax of events proposed in Chapter 2 are listed. The conclusions on the syntax of English and Chinese resultatives, applicative constructions in various languages, and Chinese non-canonical object and motion event constructions are presented, together with the implications for the verb/satellite-framed typology. The explanation of diachronic change and cross-linguistic variation is summarized, including both the historical development of Chinese resultatives, the variation of resultatives between Chinese and English on the one hand, and English and Romance on the other hand. The Synchronic Grammaticalisation Hypothesis is also summarized.

The double cusp has five minima

1978 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Callahan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Points ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Singularity Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Universal Unfolding ◽  
The Real ◽  
Level Curves ◽  
Intersection Points ◽  
The One ◽  
Image Position

The double cusp is the real, compact, unimodal singularitysee (2), (4). Functions in a universal unfolding of the double cusp can have nine non-degenerate critical points near the origin, but no more. Index considerations show that precisely four of the nine are saddles, and it has long been part of the folklore of singularity theory that one of the other five must be a maximum. Indeed, a standard form of the unfolded double cusp (1), (3) is a function having a pair of intersecting ellipses as one of its level curves; see Fig. 1(a). There are saddles at the four intersection points, a maximum inside the central quadrilateral, and a minimum inside each of the other four finite regions bounded by the ellipses. The rest of Fig. 1 suggests, however, that a deformation of this function (in which one of the saddles drops below the level of the other three) might turn the maximum into a fifth minimum. The following proposition shows that a function similar to the one in Fig. 1(d) can be realized in an unfolding of the double cusp.

scholarly journals Researching the History of Chinese Logic

Asian Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
Qingtian Cui
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Chinese Logic ◽  
Short Presentation

During the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), the progressive intellectuals, who were confronted with the all-embracing crisis of Chinese society, yearned to find the new truth within the Western ideas on the one hand, and the works of the classical Chinese philosophy of the pre-Qin era on the other. These social and historical circumstances started the research into the history of Chinese logic. In the process of these investigations, it soon became clear that more appropriate methodologies were needed to explore Chinese logic, as those used for researching Western logic were not suitable for the task. The revival and modernization of such methods took place in the latter half of the 20th century, and one of the most important figures in these processes was Professor Wen Gongyi, who was hence one of the pioneers of modern research into the history of Chinese logic. Therefore, the present article also offers a short presentation of his biography and his contributions to the development of the research into traditional Chinese logic.

scholarly journals AUCTION SALES “SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION” AND FORMATION OF CONTRACTS Withok Small Farms (Pty) Ltd v Amber Sunrise Properties 5 (Pty) Ltd 2009 2 SA 504 (SCA)

Obiter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk Delport
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
The Other ◽  
Small Farms ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The One

The Supreme Court of Appeal’s judgment in Withok Small Farms (Pty) Ltd v Amber Sunrise Properties 5 (Pty) Ltd (2009 2 SA 504 (SCA) (“Withok”)) raises two important issues for property practitioners, the one relating to auction sales and the other to the formation of contracts. The dispute arose largely because of a badly drafted agreement of sale document, but the import of the judgment is such that it may be prudent for practitioners to revisit even their well-drafted standard form sale and lease documents. The facts were straightforward. Certain properties owned by the first and second appellants (“the sellers”) were put up for sale at a public auction on 13 June 2006. The respondent, represented by one A, put in the highest bid, which the auctioneer accepted. Both A and the auctioneer signed a document entitled “Agreement and Conditions of Sale” (“the conditions of sale”), which set out the conditions relating to the auction. On 20 June 2006 the sellers’ representative confirmed the sale in writing by adding his signature in the allotted space on the final page of the document. However, the confirmation of the sale was not communicated to the respondent within the time contemplated in clause 1. In fact, the respondent did not receive notice of the confirmation until some time early in July 2006.The respondent did not wish to be bound by the sale and in due course applied for an order declaring the agreement to be of no force and effect. Its case was that the confirmation of the sale had not been communicated to it within the seven-day period contemplated in clause 1 of the conditions of sale, with the result that no agreement came into existence. The sellers, in turn, contended that the conditions of sale signed by the respondent and the auctioneer at the time of the auction constituted an agreement of salesubject to a suspensive condition, namely the confirmation of the sale by the sellers; the condition was fulfilled immediately upon the confirmation of the sale and without any need for it to be communicated to the respondent. The only issue in dispute was whether or not the confirmation of the sale had to be communicated to the respondent within the seven-day period.

Classical and Quantum Theories of Dynamic X-Ray Diffraction

2014 ◽  
pp. 409-430
Keyword(s):  
Maxwell Equations ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
The Other ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Bloch Waves ◽  
Quantum Theories ◽  
X Ray ◽  
The One

The main results of the dynamical theories of X-ray diffraction in their standard form of coupling of Maxwell equations with the Bloch waves on the one hand and the interaction of radiation-crystal in terms of perspective of quantum field on the other are unitarily presented.

scholarly journals Food, work and sleep: Visualising the top food and population centres in Beijing

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 551-553
Author(s):  
Jiangping Zhou ◽  
Yuling Yang ◽  
Chun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Cellular Network ◽  
Cellular Phone ◽  
The Other ◽  
Network Data ◽  
Metro Station ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
Chinese Counterpart ◽  
Eating Out ◽  
The One

In contemporary cities, the catering sector is much more than only food and/or eating. On the one hand, it is an important source of income, employment and waste; on the other hand, it provides many opportunities for eating out and social interaction. For a given city, where does the catering sector concentrate the most and how far are people, on average, from this location across hours of a day? Are people, on average, closer to the concentration around the prime dinner time? Taking advantage of open and big data, we geovisualised the answers in the context of Beijing, the capital of China, with a population of 22+ million people. Specifically, the data we used were the 2015 points of interest of Baidu Map (the Chinese counterpart of Google Maps) and 10–16 August 2015 cellular network data for Beijing. The former provide us with the number and location of most if not all restaurants around the local metro-served area (MSA) – that is, areas that are within an 800-metre radius of a metro station. The latter allow us to derive the average number of cellular phone users (as a proxy for the general population, residents and/or employees) by MSA across hours of a day. We depict the top five population/employment/residential centres (quantified by the average number of cellular phone users) at three different times of the day, and the top 10 food centres (measured by the number of restaurants) at the MSA level in Beijing.

scholarly journals On Relative Translatability of Language with Special Reference to Contrastive Analysis between Chinese and English

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 302
Author(s):  
Wei Wang ◽  
Weihong Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Intelligence Quotient ◽  
The Other ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Source Language ◽  
The One ◽  
Linguistic Structures ◽  
Chinese And English ◽  
Language Text

The issue of translatability has always been in dispute in translatology. On the one hand, languages are translatable, which can be demonstrated from different perspectives such as the general characteristics of language, the parallel linguistic structures, the cultural similarities, and the sameness of the intelligence quotient of all human races. On the other hand, there exist a series of limits in translation which obstruct the translatability of languages. Thus language can be described as relatively translatable. Translators are supposed to provide hybrid versions so as to facilitate communication and decrease tension between source language text and target language text.

scholarly journals Motion Descriptions in English and Greek: A Cross-Typological Developmental Study of Conversations and Narratives

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stathis Selimis ◽  
Demetra Katis
Keyword(s):  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Developmental Study ◽  
Developmental Studies ◽  
Linguistic Differences ◽  
Physical Motion ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
The One

Theoretical claims about typologically constrained differences in how speakers habitually describe physical motion are tested through three cross-linguistic developmental studies. Three types of data are analyzed in Greek and English, languages here characterized respectively as Verb- and Satellite-framed in the coding of motion: spontaneous conversations between adults and children aged 1;8–4;6 as well as two types of narratives elicited through pictures and a film from 4-, 7-, 10-year olds and adults. Results show, on the one hand, largely predictable cross-linguistic differences, with overall greater attention paid to manner in English than in Greek and different patterns for coding path. On the other hand, the very appearance as well as intensity of typological effects also depend upon various interacting factors: the precise ways of measuring them, the age of speakers, type, content and communicative exigencies of the discourse as well as the detailed structural characteristics of a language.

scholarly journals Cognitive Aspects of Relative Clause Production In Oral and Written Narratives

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 126-140
Author(s):  
Ming-Ming Pu
Keyword(s):  
Relative Clause ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Discourse Processing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Written Narratives ◽  
Distributional Patterns ◽  
Cognitive Semantic ◽  
The One ◽  
Chinese And English

The present study aims to investigate relative clause production in Chinese and English from a cognitivefunction approach that explores underlying cognitive, semantic, and discourse-pragmatic factors operative in discourse processing.  With this approach we are able to account for both general and specific distributional patterns of RCs between the two languages on the one hand and between speech and writing on the other, using narrative data elicited from native speakers of both languages.

Note on Selection of Coordinate Systems for Geodynamics

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 395-407
Author(s):  
S. Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Mean Sea Level ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The One ◽  
Static Systems ◽  
Selection Of

The first question to be answered, in seeking coordinate systems for geodynamics, is: what is geodynamics? The answer is, of course, that geodynamics is that part of geophysics which is concerned with movements of the Earth, as opposed to geostatics which is the physics of the stationary Earth. But as far as we know, there is no stationary Earth – epur sic monere. So geodynamics is actually coextensive with geophysics, and coordinate systems suitable for the one should be suitable for the other. At the present time, there are not many coordinate systems, if any, that can be identified with a static Earth. Certainly the only coordinate of aeronomic (atmospheric) interest is the height, and this is usually either as geodynamic height or as pressure. In oceanology, the most important coordinate is depth, and this, like heights in the atmosphere, is expressed as metric depth from mean sea level, as geodynamic depth, or as pressure. Only for the earth do we find “static” systems in use, ana even here there is real question as to whether the systems are dynamic or static. So it would seem that our answer to the question, of what kind, of coordinate systems are we seeking, must be that we are looking for the same systems as are used in geophysics, and these systems are dynamic in nature already – that is, their definition involvestime.

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