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    What is "the ineffable" exactly? An extensive reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
    with Hong Li
    Frontiers of Philosophy in China 2 (3): 402-411. 2007.
    "The ineffable" in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is an essential term that has various interpretations. It could be divided into two types, namely, positive and negative, or real and fake. The negative or fake type can be clarified by logical analysis, while the positive or real type can be understood only through philosophical critique. Both the positive and negative types consist of infinity or absoluteness, but the infinity is subject to distinctions in meaning and logic. "" …Read more
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    Performative contradiction and the regrounding for philosophical paradigms
    Frontiers of Philosophy in China 3 (4): 607-621. 2008.
    As a unique method of philosophical argument, performative contradiction attracted general attention after the change in direction of pragmatics in the twentieth century. Hintikka used this method to conduct an in-depth analysis of Descartes’ proposition “I think, therefore I am,” providing a proof which is a model in the philosophical history; Apel absorbed performative contradiction into his own framework of a priori pragmatics; and Habermas introduced it into the theory of formal pragmatics a…Read more
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    Performative Contradiction and the Regrounding for Philosophical Paradigms
    with Wang Xuan
    Frontiers of Philosophy in China 3 (4). 2008.
    As a unique method of philosophical argument, performative contradiction attracted general attention after the change in direction of pragmatics in the twentieth century. Hintikka used this method to conduct an in-depth analysis of Descartes' proposition "I think, therefore I am," providing a proof which is a model in the philosophical history; Apel absorbed performative contradiction into his own framework of a priori pragmatics; and Habermas introduced it into the theory of formal pragmatics a…Read more