Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Constructive-Engagement Strategy of Doing Philosophy of Language Comparatively in View of Chinese Language and Chinese Philosophy: A Theme Introduction

Part 1 Semantic-Syntactic Structure of Chinese Names and Issue of Reference

Chapter 1 White Horse Paradox and Semantics of Chinese Nouns

Chapter 2 A Double-Reference Account of Names in Early China: Case Analyses of Semantic-Syntactic Structures of Names in the Yi-Jing Text, Gongsun Long’s “White-Horse-Not-Horse” Thesis, and Later Mohist Treatment of Parallel Inference

Chapter 3 On the Comparative Analysis of Chinese Measure Words: Insights from Evolutionary Theory

Chapter 4 Intuitions or Reasons: The Empirical Evidence for Theory of Reference

Part 2 Cross-Contextual Meaning and Understanding

Chapter 5 Communicative Meaning and Meaning as Significance

Chapter 6 Semantics and What Is Said

Part 3 Principle of Charity and Linguistic Relativism in Relation to Chinese: Engaging Exploration (I)

Chapter 7 Conceptual Schemes and Linguistic Relativism in Relation to Chinese

Chapter 8 A. C. Graham’s Sinologist Criticism and the Myth of “Pre-Logical Thinking”

Editor’s Engaging Remarks for Part 3 Davidson’s Opening Message and His Principle of Charity

Part 4 Semantic Truth and Pluralist Approaches in Chinese Context: Engaging Exploration (II)

Chapter 9 Pluralism about Truth in Early Chinese Philosophy: A Reflection on Wang Chong’s Approach

Appendix: Replies to Brons and Mou on Wang Chong and Pluralism

Chapter 10 Wang Chong, Truth, and Quasi-Pluralism

Postscript: Reply to Mcleod

Editor’s Engaging Remarks for Part 4

Rooted and Rootless Pluralist Approaches to Truth: Two Distinct Interpretations of Wang Chong’s Account

Postscript: Normative Character of Semantic Truth

Part 5 The “Speakable” and the “Unspeakable” in Chinese Texts: Engaging Exploration (III)

Chapter 11 From the Ineffable to the Poetic: Heidegger and Confucius on Poetry-Expression of Language

Chapter 12 How Non-Speech Becomes a Form of Speech: A Reinterpretation of the Debate at the Dam over the Hao River

Editor’s Engaging Remarks for Part 5

Eternal Dao, Constant Name, and LanguageEngagement: On the Opening Message ofthe Dao-De-Jing

Postscript: From Lao Zi’s Opening Message to Davidson’s Opening Message

Part 6 Language in Action through Chinese Texts

Chapter 13 Reading the Analects with Davidson: Mood, Force, and Communicative Practice in Early China

Postscript 2017

Chapter 14 Metaphor in Comparative Focus

Appendixes

Appendix 1 Comparative Chronology of Philosophers

Appendix 2 Note on Transcription and Guide to Pronunciation

Index of Names and Subjects