{"id":13121,"date":"2025-01-23T13:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/dismissal-companion-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T08:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:21:14","slug":"atc-white-horse-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/atc-white-horse-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"ATC \u00a0White Horse at the Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
ATC<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0A\u00a0 DIALECTICIAN AT THE FRONTIER<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Kung-sun Lung’s paradoxical claim:<\/span><\/p>\n

Kung-sun Lung was a dialectician who lived at the time of the Six Kingdoms. He wrote a treatise on \u201cHard and White\u201d and, to illustrate his theory, said that a white horse is not a horse<\/span>. To show that a white horse is not a horse, he said that \u00ab\u00a0white\u00a0\u00bb is that by which one names the color and horse that by which one names the form. The color is not the form, and the form is not the color.
\n<\/span><\/strong>Huan T’anPokora<\/sub>\u00a0 \u201cNew Treatise<\/em>\u201d. Fragment 135A, p. 124.<\/span><\/p>\n

Does it work?<\/span><\/p>\n

Kung-sun Lung often argued that \u201ca white horse is not a horse\u201d. People could not agree with this. Later, when riding a white horse, he wished to pass through the frontier pass without a warrant or a passport. But the frontier official would not accept his explanations, for it is hard for empty words to defeat reality.
\n<\/strong>Huan T’anPokora<\/sub> Ibid.. Fragment 135B, p. 124.<\/p>\n

That kind of argument is all the fashion these days:<\/span><\/p>\n

There are now people who doubt<\/span> everything. They say that the oyster is not a bivalve, that two time five is not ten.
\n<\/strong>Huan T’anPokora<\/sub> Ibid.. Fragment 135B, p. 124.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Huan T’an (43 B.C. – 28 A.D.). Sin-Lun,<\/em> \u201cNew Treatise\u201d and Other Writings.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nAn Annotated Translation with Index by Timoteus Pokora.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span> Ann Arbor Center for Chinese Studies. The University of Michigan, 1975.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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