近20年名辩本质多元诠释的成绩与问题

Contribution and Tribulation:Analysis on the Pluralist Interpretations of the Essence of Mingbian during the Past Two Decades

20世纪90年代中期以来,"名辩逻辑化"丧失其范式地位,对名辩本质的诠释进入了一个多元化的阶段。多元诠释推进了名辩研究方法的多元化,纠正了此前研究对名辩多重内涵的遮蔽,促使学者重新思考名辩学与中国本土逻辑的关系,但也引发了若干需要认真对待的问题,如名辩本身是既定的还是生成的?名辩的本质是一还是多?关于名辩本质的多元诠释之间是何关系?一种谨慎的做法是更加注重名辩的历史衍化及其多重内涵,而不是对名辩的所谓本质做简单化的勘定。

In the field of mingbian studies,an ancient Chinese discourse on name and debate,the logicization of mingbian has lost its paradigmatic status since the middle of 1990 s. The interpretation of the essence of mingbian enters into a stage of pluralist approaches. The pluralist interpretations carry the diversity of research methods forward,make explicit the obscurity of the multiple connotations of mingbian,and impel the scholars to rethink the relationship between mingbian and ancient Chinese logic. Meanwhile,the pluralist interpretations of the essence of mingbian also introduce some questions that should be dealt with seriously. For example,is mingbian itself established or becoming? Is the essence of mingbian one or many? What is the relationship among the pluralist interpretations? This article argues that it would be prudent to pay more attention to the historyof mingbian and its multiple connotations rather than the simple determination of so called the essence of mingbian.