Title: 偶之合之仇之匹之 : Parallelism as means of including the middle
Speaker: Joachim Gentz
Abstract:
The talk consists of two parts. The first part introduces into the history of parallelism in the early Chinese written record. The second part will focus on changing functions of parallelism in early Chinese texts. It will argue that parallelism provides a means of going beyond the law of excluded middle and constructs a logical dimension in which the third may be given (tertium datur). What has been defined in Western philosophy as the “Laws of Thought” will be discussed in the light of parallel constructions of identity and truth in early Chinese texts.