The "white horse is not horse" debate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4079974 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Indraccolo (University of Zurich, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | e12434 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12434 |
| OpenAlex | W2761081208 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
The so-called "white horse is not horse" (bái mǎ fēi mǎ 白馬非馬) debate, or "white horse" (bái mǎ 白馬) dialogical argument, is beyond doubt the most famous case of argumentation (biàn 辯) in the history of Classical Chinese philosophy. The somewhat disorienting statement at the center of this debate is discussed at length by two anonymous fictive characters, a persuader and their opponent, in the 'Báimǎ lùn' 白馬論 (Disquisition on White and Horse). The 'Báimǎ lùn' usually appears as the first chapter in the received text Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ 公孫龍子 (Master Gongsun Long). The Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ is a composite collection of heterogeneous materials in six chapters. The collection includes an anecdotal preface, three partially incomplete and/or corrupted dialogues, and two short and extremely intricate treatises. In particular, the dialogues included in the collection are structured in a fairly similar way and focus on what have been defined as paradoxes or sophisms belonging to the repertoire of a rather loose group of thinkers, the so-called Logicians or Chinese "Sophists" (míngjiā 名家, literally "experts on names"), allegedly active during the Warring States period (475-221 B.C.E
Aesthetics · Argumentation theory · Art · Biology · Dialogical self · Epistemology · Horse · Literature · Chinese history and philosophy · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Philosophy
Language and logic in ancient China
Science and civilization in China
Language and Ontology in Early Chinese Thought
Philosophical Significance of Gongsun Long
Classical Chinese Conceptions of Argumentation and Persuasion
Analogical Reasoning in Ancient China
Textual Authority in Pre-Han and Han
Disputation in Ancient Chinese Culture
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A Double-Reference Account
Textual Criticism of the
White horse not horse
Constructing Lineages and Inventing Traditions Through Exemplary Figures in Early China
The Kung-sun Lung Tzu With a Translation Into English
Kung-sun Lung
"Mass Nouns and "A White Horse Is Not a Horse
The Disputation of Kung-sun Lung as Argument about Whole and Part
When a "White Horse" Is Not a "Horse
Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science
Chinese Texts and Philosophical Contexts
Sima Tan and the Invention of Daoism, "Legalism,"et cetera
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |