Traditional Chinese epistemology: the structural compatibility of mind and external world
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Chinese epistemology, the concept li, structure, structural compatibilityAbstract
Traditional Chinese theories of knowledge can be called structural or relational epistemologies, because thesubject they refer to are relations, forming a relative fixed structure. The present article shows that in China, the structural approach to comprehension had already been elaborated in ancient times. It has been developed as an epistemological model that arises out of the compatibility between the structures of the external world and those of the human mind. Such structural compatibility has been seen as the basic precondition of human perception. The structural constitution of consciousness on the one, and of external world on the other side, hasbeen expressed by the term li, which functioned as the traditional Chinese concept of structure.References
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