Critique of "Judgment" in Gongsun Long's "Zhiwu lun"-A Comparative Reading in the Light of Holderlin's "Judgment and Being"

This paper has attempted to characterize "Zhiwu lun" as the presentation of the incapacity of object-oriented knowledge to represent the realm of "things", highlighting Gongsun Long's epistemological and ontological value beyond a logical one:Ibis paper proposes that only based upon this assumption does "Zhiwu lun" allow a thorough interpretation of "Mingshi lun", whereby the intuitive function of "names" provides a better solution to the cognitive limits imposed by object-oriented (self-)consciousness. Methodologically, this paper mainly considers the Heidelberg School's interpretation of Holderlin's critique of judgment in "Judgment and Being" to be both a complementary justification and reconstruction of the implicit structures of Gongsun Long's view. This paper has presupposed the interpretation of Gongsun Long's key concept of as "judgment" in Holderlin's sense, in contrast to "things" () and "name" (), then verified this hypothesis, as well as the relationships amongst these translations, by a close textual analysis and new translation of "Zhiwu lun".