ANAPHORS OR CATAPHORS? A DISCUSSION OF THE TWO QI GRAPHS IN THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE DAODEJING.
Since the third century b.c.e., interpreters of the Daodejing have taken the two qi graphs (conventionally translated as "its") in the first chapter as anaphoric, that is, as denoting an entity previously mentioned in the discourse/ text. Almost unanimously, commentators have assumed that this anaph...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy East & West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 391 - 422 |
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