When a "white horse" is not a "horse." (paradox)

From: Philosophy East and West | Date: October 1, 1995| Author: Thompson, Kirill Ole | Copyright information

The "Treatise on the White Horse" attributed to Master Kung-sun Lung is critically read within the framework of structuralist linguistics. The paradoxical statement that a white horse is not a horse is explained through another work by the same master, "Treatise on Signifying Things." The term "white horse" is taken as a signifier, not the object it signifies. So with the term "horse." The paradox is then resolved.

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