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Needham Research Institute Studies. 2
Aristotle in China: Language, Categories and Translation
Robert Wardy
Cambridge University Press
, 2000
ISBN 0521771188
This volume concerns the relation between language and thought. This
huge topic is explored in an analysis of linguistic relativism, with
specific reference to a reading of the ming li t'an (The Investigation
of the Theory of Names), a seventeenth-century Chinese translation of
Aristotle's Categories. Throughout his investigation, Wardy addresses
important questions. Do the basic structures of language shape the
major thought-patterns of its native speakers? Could philosophy be
guided and constrained by the language in which it is done? What factors,
from grammar and logic to cultural and religious expectations, influence
translation? And does Aristotle survive rendition into Chinese intact?
His answers will fascinate philosophers, Sinologists, classicists,
linguists and anthropologists, and promise to make a major contribution
to the existing literature.
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