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100Vision-Centrality and the Reflexive-Identity of External ObjectFrontiers of Philosophy in China 3 (1). 2008.The correspondence of a sensory object to the category of a descriptive statement requires a reflexive-identity of the object, and such a reflexive-identity is primarily based on the cognition of spatiality. Spatiality is, however, constituted through visual perception. There are only two occasions on which definitive reflexive-identity is exemplified: the infinitesimal point and the infinite "One," and others are just human stipulations that meet pragmatic needs of rough identification of thing…Read more
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101The Misfortune of IntellectualsContemporary Chinese Thought 29 (2): 86-94. 1997.Chaucer tells this story: A knight commits a serious crime and the king hands him over to the queen for disposal, whereupon the queen orders him to answer one question: What is a woman's greatest wish? The knight is unable to answer the question then and there, so the queen gives him a time limit. If he cannot answer the question in that time, his head will be chopped off. So the knight journeys far and wide to find the answer. Eventually he finds it and saves his own head. There would be no sto…Read more
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96Should Chinese Intellectuals Abandon the Style of Medieval Times?Contemporary Chinese Thought 29 (2): 63-71. 1997.To this day I still do not know exactly what sort of people are to be regarded as intellectuals, and what sort of people are not. When I was being re-educated in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, a military representative once told me that I was a "petty bourgeois intellectual." I was only seventeen at the time, had received six years of primary school education, and was barely literate, so I felt I did not deserve to be called an intellectual. By the way, I also felt I did not des…Read more
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199Shixue Jingxue yu Sixiang 《史学经学与思想》 (Studies of History and Classics in Chinese Thought)- By Liu JiaheJournal of Chinese Philosophy 36 (3): 479-483. 2009.No Abstract
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103A Variant of Thomason's First-Order Logic CF Based on SituationsNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 39 (1): 74-93. 1998.In this paper, we define a first-order logic CFʹ with strong negation and bounded static quantifiers, which is a variant of Thomason's logic CF. For the logic CFʹ, the usual Kripke formal semantics is defined based on situations, and a sound and complete axiomatic system is established based on the axiomatic systems of constructive logics with strong negation and Thomason's completeness proof techniques. With the use of bounded quantifiers, CFʹ allows the domain of quantification to be empty and…Read more
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Areas of Interest
| Philosophy of Language |
| Philosophy of Mind |
| Asian Philosophy |