惠施“历物十事”的语言哲学新探

Philosophy of Language in Hui Shi's "Ten Paradoxical Propositions"

惠施的“历物十事”是先秦名家思想中非常重要的部分。但“历物十事”到底在说什么,目前并无共识。从纯语言性思辨的角度来看,惠施的“历物十事”既不是经验科学式结论,也不是辩证逻辑,更不是相对主义认识论;其一以贯之的哲学精神是对于语言意义确定性的理性追问。

The ＂Ten Paradoxical Propositions＂ of Hui Shi is a very important part of the thoughts of the Pre -Qin School of Names. But there is yet no universal agreement on what these propositions are talking about. This paper has performed a new interpretation of each of the propositions in the new dimension of philosophy of language and concluded that these ten paradoxical propositions are neither empirical science statements, nor dialectical logic, nor relativistic epistemology, but a philosophical inquiry into the certainty of language meanings that is at the core consistently rationalistic.