白马非马
bái​mǎ​fēi​mǎ

sophistry paradox

  • created reference approved 白马非马/白馬非馬 → 公孙龙/公孫龍 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    白马非马 / 白馬非馬 bái​mǎ​fēi​mǎ

    公孙龙 / 公孫龍 gōng​sūn​lóng

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 白马非马/白馬非馬 · bái​mǎ​fēi​mǎ · sophistry paradox — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    白马非马 / 白馬非馬

    bái​mǎ​fēi​mǎ

    sophistry paradox

    Literally 'a white horse is not a horse', a famous logical paradox of the School of Names during the Warring States period. It highlights the distinction between a specific attribute and a general category, but is often used to refer to sophistry or circular reasoning

    白马 (literal) → 白马/白馬 · bái​mǎ · white horse 非 (literal) → 非 · fēi · not be 马 (literal) → 马/馬 · mǎ · horse

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense