Lin Ma is Associate Editor of Philosophers at the School of Philosophy at Renmin University of China. She is the author of several books, including Heidegger on East-West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event. Jaap van Brakel is Professor Emeritus in the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the University of Leuven in Belgium. He is the author of Philosophy of Chemistry: Between the Manifest and the Scientific Image. Together, Ma and van Brakel are coauthors of Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy.

"…an attractive (and rewarding) monograph to read for specialists in Chinese philosophy and religion to whom, thus, the volume is warmly recommended." — Religious Studies Review

• AcknowledgmentsNote on ReferencingIntroduction 1. PreliminariesNecessary Preconditions of InterpretationAgainst the Ideal Language AssumptionUnderdetermination of Meaning and InterpretationWould "On Its Own Terms" Be Possible? Part I. The Troubled Water of Shifei 2. Projection of Truth onto Classical Chinese LanguageThe Harbsmeier–Hansen DisputeLooking for the "Is True" Predicate in Classical ChineseConceptual Embedment of Shi 是 and Its CongenersTranscendental Pretense in Projecting "Theories of Truth"The Later Mohist Canons 3. Competing Translations of Shifei 是非 4. Variations of the Meaning of Shi Shi as a DemonstrativeShi as Meaning both "This" and "Right"Modifiers of Shi 5. Dissolution of Dichotomies of Fact/Value and Reason/EmotionAre There Dichotomies in Classical Chinese?Fact/Value Dichotomy in Western Philosophy6. Rightness and FittingNelson Goodman on Rightness and FittingSetting up the Quasi-universal of Yi 宜 and Fitting 7. Shi and Its Opposites and Modifiers in the Qiwulun 齊物論 Non-English Translations of Shifei Bi/Ci (彼/此) and Shi/Fei Shibushi 是不是, Ranburan 然不然, Kebuke 可不可 Qing 情 and Shifei Modifiers of Shi in the Qiwulun Graham’s Contrasting between Yinshi 因是 and Weishi 為是 Translations of Yinbi 因彼, Weishi, and Yinshi Part II. From Disputation to Walking-Two-Roads in the Zhuangzi 8. Is Zhuangzi a Relativist or a Skeptic?Zhuangzi and RelativismRelativities versus RelativismHansen and Graham’s Relativistic Interpretations of the Zhuangzi Zhi 知 and Skepticism 9. Zhuangzi’s StanceStance Instead of Perspective or Set of BeliefsNo Fixed Meanings (Weiding 未定)Walking-Two-Roads (Liangxing 兩行)Doubt and Rhetorical QuestionsBuqi Erqi 不齊而齊: Achieving Equality by Leaving Things Uneven 10. AfterthoughtsDo the Ruists and Mohists Really Disagree?Is Zhuangzi’s Stance Amoral? AppendixThe Zhuangzi—Key NotionsZhuangzi’s Text(s): What Are the Authentic Chapters?The Big (Da 大) and the Small (Xiao 小): Early Interpretations and DisagreementsThe Qi 齊 and Lun 論 of Wu 物 The SagesDao道, Tian 天, and "the One"Ziran 自然 and Hundun 渾沌 Wuwei 无為 and Wuyong 无用 NotesWorks CitedName IndexSubject Index

Lin Ma is Associate Editor of Philosophers at the School of Philosophy at Renmin University of China. She is the author of several books, including Heidegger on East-West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event. Jaap van Brakel is Professor Emeritus in the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the University of Leuven in Belgium. He is the author of Philosophy of Chemistry: Between the Manifest and the Scientific Image. Together, Ma and van Brakel are coauthors of Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy.

"…an attractive (and rewarding) monograph to read for specialists in Chinese philosophy and religion to whom, thus, the volume is warmly recommended." — Religious Studies Review

• AcknowledgmentsNote on ReferencingIntroduction 1. PreliminariesNecessary Preconditions of InterpretationAgainst the Ideal Language AssumptionUnderdetermination of Meaning and InterpretationWould "On Its Own Terms" Be Possible? Part I. The Troubled Water of Shifei 2. Projection of Truth onto Classical Chinese LanguageThe Harbsmeier–Hansen DisputeLooking for the "Is True" Predicate in Classical ChineseConceptual Embedment of Shi 是 and Its CongenersTranscendental Pretense in Projecting "Theories of Truth"The Later Mohist Canons 3. Competing Translations of Shifei 是非 4. Variations of the Meaning of Shi Shi as a DemonstrativeShi as Meaning both "This" and "Right"Modifiers of Shi 5. Dissolution of Dichotomies of Fact/Value and Reason/EmotionAre There Dichotomies in Classical Chinese?Fact/Value Dichotomy in Western Philosophy6. Rightness and FittingNelson Goodman on Rightness and FittingSetting up the Quasi-universal of Yi 宜 and Fitting 7. Shi and Its Opposites and Modifiers in the Qiwulun 齊物論 Non-English Translations of Shifei Bi/Ci (彼/此) and Shi/Fei Shibushi 是不是, Ranburan 然不然, Kebuke 可不可 Qing 情 and Shifei Modifiers of Shi in the Qiwulun Graham’s Contrasting between Yinshi 因是 and Weishi 為是 Translations of Yinbi 因彼, Weishi, and Yinshi Part II. From Disputation to Walking-Two-Roads in the Zhuangzi 8. Is Zhuangzi a Relativist or a Skeptic?Zhuangzi and RelativismRelativities versus RelativismHansen and Graham’s Relativistic Interpretations of the Zhuangzi Zhi 知 and Skepticism 9. Zhuangzi’s StanceStance Instead of Perspective or Set of BeliefsNo Fixed Meanings (Weiding 未定)Walking-Two-Roads (Liangxing 兩行)Doubt and Rhetorical QuestionsBuqi Erqi 不齊而齊: Achieving Equality by Leaving Things Uneven 10. AfterthoughtsDo the Ruists and Mohists Really Disagree?Is Zhuangzi’s Stance Amoral? AppendixThe Zhuangzi—Key NotionsZhuangzi’s Text(s): What Are the Authentic Chapters?The Big (Da 大) and the Small (Xiao 小): Early Interpretations and DisagreementsThe Qi 齊 and Lun 論 of Wu 物 The SagesDao道, Tian 天, and "the One"Ziran 自然 and Hundun 渾沌 Wuwei 无為 and Wuyong 无用 NotesWorks CitedName IndexSubject Index

Lin Ma is Associate Editor of Philosophers at the School of Philosophy at Renmin University of China. She is the author of several books, including Heidegger on East-West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event. Jaap van Brakel is Professor Emeritus in the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the University of Leuven in Belgium. He is the author of Philosophy of Chemistry: Between the Manifest and the Scientific Image. Together, Ma and van Brakel are coauthors of Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy.

"…an attractive (and rewarding) monograph to read for specialists in Chinese philosophy and religion to whom, thus, the volume is warmly recommended." — Religious Studies Review

• AcknowledgmentsNote on ReferencingIntroduction 1. PreliminariesNecessary Preconditions of InterpretationAgainst the Ideal Language AssumptionUnderdetermination of Meaning and InterpretationWould "On Its Own Terms" Be Possible? Part I. The Troubled Water of Shifei 2. Projection of Truth onto Classical Chinese LanguageThe Harbsmeier–Hansen DisputeLooking for the "Is True" Predicate in Classical ChineseConceptual Embedment of Shi 是 and Its CongenersTranscendental Pretense in Projecting "Theories of Truth"The Later Mohist Canons 3. Competing Translations of Shifei 是非 4. Variations of the Meaning of Shi Shi as a DemonstrativeShi as Meaning both "This" and "Right"Modifiers of Shi 5. Dissolution of Dichotomies of Fact/Value and Reason/EmotionAre There Dichotomies in Classical Chinese?Fact/Value Dichotomy in Western Philosophy6. Rightness and FittingNelson Goodman on Rightness and FittingSetting up the Quasi-universal of Yi 宜 and Fitting 7. Shi and Its Opposites and Modifiers in the Qiwulun 齊物論 Non-English Translations of Shifei Bi/Ci (彼/此) and Shi/Fei Shibushi 是不是, Ranburan 然不然, Kebuke 可不可 Qing 情 and Shifei Modifiers of Shi in the Qiwulun Graham’s Contrasting between Yinshi 因是 and Weishi 為是 Translations of Yinbi 因彼, Weishi, and Yinshi Part II. From Disputation to Walking-Two-Roads in the Zhuangzi 8. Is Zhuangzi a Relativist or a Skeptic?Zhuangzi and RelativismRelativities versus RelativismHansen and Graham’s Relativistic Interpretations of the Zhuangzi Zhi 知 and Skepticism 9. Zhuangzi’s StanceStance Instead of Perspective or Set of BeliefsNo Fixed Meanings (Weiding 未定)Walking-Two-Roads (Liangxing 兩行)Doubt and Rhetorical QuestionsBuqi Erqi 不齊而齊: Achieving Equality by Leaving Things Uneven 10. AfterthoughtsDo the Ruists and Mohists Really Disagree?Is Zhuangzi’s Stance Amoral? AppendixThe Zhuangzi—Key NotionsZhuangzi’s Text(s): What Are the Authentic Chapters?The Big (Da 大) and the Small (Xiao 小): Early Interpretations and DisagreementsThe Qi 齊 and Lun 論 of Wu 物 The SagesDao道, Tian 天, and "the One"Ziran 自然 and Hundun 渾沌 Wuwei 无為 and Wuyong 无用 NotesWorks CitedName IndexSubject Index