A Textual Analysis of "The Linear Image" in the Book of Changes

  • Hui-sheng FU
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Received date: 2004-12-20

  Online published: 2005-03-25

Abstract

The section of 'The Linear Image' has been long neglected in the study of the Book of Changes. A textual analysis with a corpus-based perspective of it shows that the section is a rich embodiment of traditional Chinese culture. Its part of repetition and ellipsis is a rare phenomenon in our ancient literature and can be regarded as a window for studies of the ancient Chinese language. More importantly, its thinking mode of word-image-meaning is quite different from Greek syllogism. Moreover, every linear image judgment of 386 lines is firmly detached to each line. Such a detailed, clear and rational thinking mode rightly demonstrates that it is part of traditional Chinese thinking mode with a characteristic of dynamic combination of whole, part and their particulars.

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Hui-sheng FU . A Textual Analysis of "The Linear Image" in the Book of Changes[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2005 , 37(3) : 43 -123 . DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2005.03.006

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