轮不蹍地:荒诞言辞背后的智者精神

Wheels Without Constantly Rotating on the Ground: The Spirit of the Wise behind the Absurd Words

先秦辩者提出"轮不蹍地"命题的立论基础,在于他们发现了"驰车之轮"的着地点始终是静止的!轮之滚动作为一种复合运动,正是通过"动点"与"不动点"的交替转化而实现的。若进一步对轮周上动、静交替作深入的思考与追问,则必将涉及"连续"与"间断"、"有限"与"无穷"这一理性认识的秘境———以有限经验分析无限观念,必然导致尖锐的矛盾,产生诸多困惑。

Pre-Qin debaters put forward the debating foundation of the proposition that'the wheels do not constantly rotate on the ground',for they found that the touchdown point of'the moving wheel'is always static!The scrolling of a wheel as a compound movement is materialized through the alternate changes of'the dynamic point'and'the static point'.After the further reasoning and inquiry on the alternation of the dynamic state and the static state on the circumference of a wheel,we will reach the secret realm of rational cognition on the paradoxes such as'continuity'and'intermittence',and'finity'and'infinity'.The analysis of an infinite notion through the finite experiences will inevitably lead to sharp contradictions and cause a lot of puzzles.