Acknowledgments Note on Referencing Introduction 1. Preliminaries Necessary Preconditions of Interpretation Against the Ideal Language Assumption Underdetermination of Meaning and Interpretation Would "On Its Own Terms" Be Possible? Part I. The Troubled Water of Shifei 2. Projection of Truth onto Classical Chinese Language The Harbsmeier-Hansen Dispute Looking for the "Is True" Predicate in Classical Chinese Conceptual Embedment of Shi and Its Congeners Transcendental Pretense in Projecting "Theories of Truth" The Later Mohist Canons 3. Competing Translations of Shifei 4. Variations of the Meaning of Shi Shi as a Demonstrative Shi as Meaning both "This" and "Right" Modifiers of Shi 5. Dissolution of Dichotomies of Fact/Value and Reason/Emotion Are There Dichotomies in Classical Chinese? Fact/Value Dichotomy in Western Philosophy 6. Rightness and Fitting Nelson Goodman on Rightness and Fitting Setting up the Quasi-universal of Yi and Fitting 7.

Shi and Its Opposites and Modifiers in the Qiwulun Non-English Translations of Shifei Bi/Ci (/) and Shi/Fei Shibushi , Ranburan , Kebuke Qing and Shifei Modifiers of Shi in the Qiwulun Graham's Contrasting between Yinshi and Weishi Translations of Yinbi , Weishi , and Yinshi Part II. From Disputation to Walking-Two-Roads in the Zhuangzi 8. Is Zhuangzi a Relativist or a Skeptic? Zhuangzi and Relativism Relativities versus Relativism Hansen and Graham's Relativistic Interpretations of the Zhuangzi Zhi and Skepticism 9. Zhuangzi's Stance Stance Instead of Perspective or Set of Beliefs No Fixed Meanings ( Weiding ) Walking-Two-Roads ( Liangxing ) Doubt and Rhetorical Questions Buqi Erqi : Achieving Equality by Leaving Things Uneven 10. Afterthoughts Do the Ruists and Mohists Really Disagree? Is Zhuangzi's Stance Amoral? Appendix The Zhuangzi --Key Notions Zhuangzi's Text(s): What Are the Authentic Chapters? The Big ( Da ) and the Small ( Xiao ): Early Interpretations and Disagreements The Qi and Lun of Wu The Sages Dao , Tian , and "the One" Ziran and Hundun Wuwei and Wuyong Notes Works Cited Name Index Subject Index.