Chapter 520: The White Horse's Tale (I)

As soon as my words fell, Ah Luo's voice came not far away, and she didn't know when she ran to the side of this Yaochi Temple, and there seemed to be something to be found in the corner of the east wall.

"Here, there is a stone tablet here, but I don't recognize the text written, you can take a look, what kind of inscription is this?" Arrow said.

We all leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, in the east corner of the palace, a stone tablet was erected, and Yun Ximing leaned in and read out the words on it one by one. "Yaochi, the immortal residence of the Queen Mother of the West, both for the residence, there must be, so the name of the residence of Yaochi, the name of the residence, is not the pool."

"It's nothing, it's nothing, my ancient text is not good." Dazhe said.

"That is to say, Yaochi is the residence of the Queen Mother of the West, and the word Yaochi is actually the name of this residence, not a pool." Yun Ximing explained.

"Yin Yin, you are really right, this Zuo Ci means this, Yao Chi is not Chi." Min Lan said.

This is the meaning, but the purpose is strange. First of all, he shouldn't know what Yao Chi looks like, this Yao Chi, Lingxiao Treasure Palace, are all built by him according to his own imagination, why did he explain it like this. In addition, what is the purpose of his doing this, and why is it necessary to erect a stone tablet here to proclaim that there is no silver in this place. I said.

"It's true, but there's another point, don't you think, his sentence of Yaochi Feichi is a bit like Gongsun Long's white horse and non-horse?" Yun Ximing said.

"That's true. Kind of. I said.

"What does the white horse say? I've only heard horses say, it's the one from Maxima and Bole, are you talking about that? Dazhe asked.

"Of course not." Yun Ximing said, and then his eyes rolled, and he had a ghost idea again, "Fat man, let me ask you, is the white horse a horse?" Can it be said that a white horse is different from a horse? ”

Dazhe was stunned for a moment, "Of course, a white horse is also a horse, but you are not wrong to say that there is a difference." ”

"But I don't think it's right, a white horse is not a horse. Horse. It is a regulation of the shape of things. The white horse is a regulation of the color of the horse, and the regulation of the color is naturally different from the regulation of the shape. So, it's the result of different definitions of different concepts. Therefore, white horses are also different from horses. Yun Ximing said.

"What kind of fallacy are you? Then I ask you. If you have a white horse, I ask you, do you have a horse. You can't say you don't have horses, can you? Since it can't be said that there are no horses, then isn't a white horse a horse? Since there are white horses called arima, why is a white horse not a horse? "It's good that Dazhe can think of this level, but he is right in Yun Ximing's arms.

"If you ask for a horse, then it doesn't matter if it's a yellow horse or a dark horse. But if you ask for a white horse, then the yellow horse and the black horse will not be able to meet the requirements. If a white horse is a horse, then asking for a horse is exactly the same as asking for a white horse, and if what is asked is the same, then there is no difference between a white horse and a horse, but if there is no difference between asking for a horse and asking for a white horse, then why can you promise a horse when you have a yellow horse or a black horse, but not a white horse? Since you can promise to have a horse, you can't promise to have a white horse. This makes it obvious that asking for a horse is completely different from asking for a white horse. Therefore, the same yellow horse or black horse can promise to have a horse, but not a white horse. This means that the assumption that the white horse is a horse cannot be established. Therefore, it is very clear that a white horse is different from a horse. Yun Ximing said.

"I'm confused by you, let's sort it out." Dazhe said, "According to your meaning, horses are different from horses when they have colors." But there are no colorless horses in the world, so can it be said that all colored horses in the world are not horses? Dazhe asked.

"Horses have colors, so there are white horses. If a horse has no color, it is only a horse, how can it be called a white horse? However, a horse that stipulates that a horse is white is different from a horse. The so-called white horse is that the horse is limited to white, and the horse limited to white is naturally different from the horse, so it is not wrong to say that the white horse is not a horse. Yun Ximing smiled and said, "Horses are horses that are not limited by white; The white is white not limited by a horse. It is of course not permissible to combine the two concepts of white and horse and make them into a new concept to refer to the concept of being limited. So, if you think that white horses are not horses, you are not right. So in your opinion, if there is a white horse, there is a horse, but can it be said that there is a white horse and there is a yellow horse? ”

"Of course you can't say that." Dazhe said.

"You see, since you have admitted that the horse is distinguished from the yellow horse, you have distinguished the yellow horse from the horse, which means that the yellow horse is not a horse; Since the yellow horse is distinguished from the horse, and the white horse is equated with the horse, isn't this so funny that the bird sinks into the water and flies, and the coffin and the coffin are in the west and east? Fatty, you're completely confused by logic. Yun Ximing said, "To think that there is a white horse cannot be said to be that there is no horse, which is not to consider the white horse but to talk about the shape of the horse." However, the white horse is a concept that is combined with the horse and cannot be separated, therefore, the concept as a white horse cannot be called a horse. Therefore, what is called a horse is only called a horse in the form of a horse, and not a white horse. Therefore, the concept of a horse cannot be used as a concept for any specific colored horse. White that is limited to concrete things is different from abstract and general white. For the same reason, horses are not limited to which color, so both yellow and black horses can be counted; White horses are limited to white horses, and yellow horses and black horses cannot be counted because they have a different color from white horses. So only a white horse counts. There is a distinction between an unqualified concept and a qualified one. So there is a difference between a white horse and a horse. Am I right? Yun Ximing continued to mess around.

"According to what you said, this white horse is really not a horse yet?" Dazhe said, "It's strange, I obviously feel like a mirror in my heart, why did you say that, I was taken away." ”

"Well, take it." Yun Ximing said in a daze.

"How did you do that?" Dazhe asked inexplicably.

"I didn't do it, it was done by the ancients." Yun Ximing said.

"Let me explain, this is a sophistry, from Gongsun Long, this is the famous white horse theory in history." I say.

"Who am this Gongsun Long?" Dazhe asked.

"This Gongsun Long, the legend of Zibing, is a native of Zhao during the Warring States Period, once did the door of the Plains Jun, the representative of the famous family, its main work is "Gongsun Longzi", there are 14 articles in the Western Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty is divided into three volumes, the Northern Song Dynasty lost 8 articles, and only 6 articles remain so far, a total of one volume. The two most important of these are "The White Horse" and "The Theory of Jianbai", which put forward the arguments that the white horse is not a horse and the theory of leaving Jianbai, and are the main representatives of the Lijianbai school. On the same level as him is another famous artist named Hui Shi, who is also very famous. I said.

It is said that at that time, there was an epidemic of virulent infectious diseases in horses in the Zhao area, resulting in the death of a large number of war horses. There are many war horses in the Qin State, and in order to strictly prevent this plague from entering the Qin State, the Qin State posted a notice at the Hangu Pass: All horses of the Zhao State cannot enter the customs. On this day, Gongsun Long rode a white horse to the front of Hangu Pass. The official said, "You can enter the customs, but you can't enter the horses." Gongsun Long argued: White horses are not horses, why can't they pass the test? The official said: The white horse is a horse. Gongsun Long asked rhetorically: Is my Gongsun Long a dragon? The customs official was stunned, but still insisted: According to the regulations, no matter whether it is a white horse or a black horse, as long as it is a horse of Zhao State, it cannot enter the customs. Gongsun Long then told the story, saying that the concept of white horse is separated from white and horse or horse and white, which are also two different concepts. For example, if you want a horse, you can give it to a yellow horse or a black horse, but if you want a white horse, you can't give it to a horse of other colors, which proves that a white horse and a horse are not the same thing! So a white horse is not a horse. The more the officials listened, the more dazed they became, and they were dizzy by Gongsun Long's high-minded talk, like falling into the clouds, and they didn't know how to answer, so they had no choice but to let Gongsun Long and Baima pass the pass. I explained.

"What kind of Gongsun Long is not a philosopher at all, this is clearly a scoundrel who messes around." Min Lan said.

"I can't say that, in fact, Gongsun Long is a wizard in sophistry, and he has also done a lot of practical things." I said, "When Zhao Huiwen was king, Zhao Sheng, the son of Zhao Sheng, was the king of the plains. Pingyuan Jun likes the words of famous experts, so Gongsun Long became Pingyuan Jun's doorman. Once King Yan Zhao wanted to attack the State of Qi, Gongsun Long led his disciples from the State of Zhao to the State of Yan, trying to persuade his soldiers. King Yan agreed, but Gongsun Long said he couldn't believe it, and said: At the beginning, the king recruited people from all over the world who wanted to break Qi and could break Qi to come to Yan Kingdom, and then finally broke Qi. Now the princes are in the king's own dynasty, and they make good use of the soldiers, so I don't think the king will be able to use the soldiers. He used this method to guess the true intentions of King Yan, making King Yan speechless. Later, Qin and Zhao signed a treaty: Qin Zhi did whatever he wanted, and Zhao helped him; Zhao Zhi did what he wanted, and Qin helped him. Promise to help each other. Soon, Qin Xing's troops attacked Wei, and Zhao wanted to save Wei. The king of Qin sent people to reproach King Zhao Huiwen for not keeping the covenant. King Zhao informed Pingyuan Jun of this. Gongsun Long suggested to Pingyuan Jun that Zhao could also send an envoy to rebuke the King of Qin, saying that Zhao wanted to rescue Wei, but Qin attacked Wei, and Qin was the first to break the covenant. After that, the Qin soldiers attacked Zhao and besieged Handan. The king of the plains sent people to the Wei State for help. Xinlingjun led his troops to rescue Zhao, and Handan was saved. Yu Qing asked King Zhao for the title of Pingyuan Jun. Gongsun Long drove into Pingyuanjun overnight, thinking that this move was not feasible, and pointed out that Wang raised the king and ministered to Zhao, and cut the Dongwu City and sealed the king, not because Pingyuanjun's talent and intelligence were unique to Zhao, but because Pingyuanjun was a relative of King Zhao, and the credit of the people of the country was in the name of the relative. Therefore, it was suggested that Pingyuanjun should not be entitled, and Pingyuanjun listened to Gongsun Long's suggestion, and thus valued him more and more. I said.

"This Gongsun Long is not an ordinary person, even the descendants of Confucius were defeated at his hands." Yun Ximing said. (To be continued.) )