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  1. Let the ruler be the ruler: aiming at truth in Xunzi’s doctrine of the rectification of names.Liam D. Ryan - 2022 - Asian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1):1-19.
    How should we understand the Confucian doctrine of the rectification of names (zhengming): what does it mean that an object’s name must be in accordance with its reality, and why does it matter? The aim of this paper is to answer this question by advocating a novel interpretation of the later Confucian, Xunzi’s account of the doctrine. Xunzi claims that sage-kings ascribe names and values to objects by convention, and since they are sages, they know the truth. When we misuse (...)
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