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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Rethinking Same and Different
Coherence and Li: Plan and Method of This Book and Its Sequel
CHAPTER ONE: ESSENCES, UNIVERSALS, AND OMNIPRESENCE: ABSOLUTE SAMENESS AND DIFFERENCE
Essences, Universals, Categories, Ideas: Simple Location and the Disjunction of Same and Different in Mainstream Western Philosophy
Same and Different in Form and Matter
Two Opposite Derivations of the Omnipresent
CHAPTER TWO: WHAT IS COHERENCE?: CHINESE PARADIGMS
Coherence as Opposed to Law, Rule, Principle, Pattern: Harmony Versus Repeatability
Is White Horse Horse?
Qian Mu's Pendulum
Ironic and Non-Ironic Coherence
CHAPTER THREE: NON-IRONIC COHERENCE AND NEGOTIABLE CONTINUITY
Coherence and Omniavailability of Value in Confucius and Mencius
Coherence and Heaven in the Analects
Ritual Versus Law: Cultural Grammar
Rectification of Names: Negotiated Identity as a Function of Ritual
Classes and Types in Mencius
Omnipresence in Mencius
Transition to Ironic Coherence: Qi-Omnipresence and the Empty Center in Pre-Ironic Proto-Daoism
CHAPTER FOUR: IRONIC COHERENCE AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE “YIN”
The Laozi Tradition: Desiring W/holes
Overview of Ironic Coherence in the Laozi
The Five Meanings of the Unhewn: Omnipresence and Ironic Coherence in the Laozi
Zhuangzi's Wild Card: Thing as Perspective
Using the Wild Card
The Wild Card against Both Objective Truth and Subjective Solipsism
Conclusion to Chapter Four: Ironic Coherence
CHAPTER FIVE: NON-IRONIC RESPONSES TO IRONIC COHERENCE IN XUNZI AND THE RECORD OF RITUAL
Xunzi and the Regulation of Sameness and Difference
Omnipresence and Coherence in Xunzi
Two Texts from the Record of Ritual (Liji): “The Great Learning,” and “The Doctrine of the Mean”
CHAPTER SIX: THE YIN-YANG COMPROMISE
Yin-Yang Theism in Dong Zhongshu: The Metastasis of Harmony and Irony
An Alternate Yin.Yang Divination System: Yang Xiong's Taixuanjing
CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY: TOWARD LI
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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