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    A Pro-Realist Account of Gongsun Long's "White Horse Dialogue"
    with Yuan Ren
    Philosophy East and West 69 (2): 464-483. 2019.
    Ever since the ancient Chinese paradox "white horse is not horse" was brought into the context of Western philosophy, various interpretations have been proposed by modern scholars based on different theoretical considerations, although no satisfactory consensus has been reached. Controversy focuses especially on whether the paradox implies a realist or nominalist ontology.The controversy starts from Fung Yu-lan's realist reading of Gongsun Long. Fung read "white horse is not horse" as "white-hor…Read more