Later Wittgenstein's Rule-following Paradox and Chinese Philosophy of Meaning

• 作 者: Jiang Daohua
• 机 构: National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education Beijing Foreign Studies University,Hefei Nor
• 出 处: 学术界
• 发表日期: 2016年04期
• 关键词: 物不迁 白马论 齐物论 private Paradox dissolved eaning intimate highlight determ

Rule-following paradox in Philosophical Investigations remains a hot philosophical issue through which Wittgenstein promotes its intimate association with such core concepts like language games,meaning- is- use and private language.This paradoxical way of explicating meaning is echoed in Chinese traditional philosophy.This paper discusses how Wittgenstein’ s puzzle of meaning is touched upon and dissolved by Chinese traditional philosophy well expressed in Zhuangzi’ s On the Uniformity of All Things(齐物论),Sengzhao’ s Immovability of Thing(物不迁),and Gongsun Long’ s White Horse Dialogue(白马论),which all highlight determinacy in the indeterminacy of meaning.

Rule-following paradox in Philosophical Investigations remains a hot philosophical issue through which Wittgenstein promotes its intimate association with such core concepts like language games, meaning- is- use and private language. This paradoxical way of explicating meaning is echoed in Chinese traditional philosophy.This paper discusses how Wittgenstein’s puzzle of meaning is touched upon and dissolved by Chinese traditional philosophy well expressed in Zhuangzi’s On the Uniformity of All Things, Sengzhao’s Immovability of Thing, and Gongsun Long ’s White Horse Dialogue, which all highlight determinacy in the indeterminacy of meaning.