Abstract

This paper discusses some paradoxical propositions in Chinese tradition, especially the School of Names. It not only explains what Chinese philosophers mean by these propositions and why there are such paradoxes in Chinese philosophy, but also makes an attempt to formulate these paradoxical propositions in the language of symbolic logic. Meanwhile, the paper makes a comparison between Chinese views about contradiction and Aristotle’s law ot non‐contradiction and explores the relation between them. It comes to the conclusion that once the difference between Chinese concept of contraries and Aristotle’s is made clear, inconsistency between Chinese paradoxial propositions and Aristotle’s. law of non-contradiction disappears.