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Show EXAMPLE OF CHINESE LOGIC To the Westerner It Seems Farfetched, Far-fetched, but There -U Really Something in It. A3 he studies the teaching of this curious Oriental quietism the Inhabitant Inhabi-tant of the West begins to wonder more and more where he is getting to. Take the case of Chunang Tzu and Hui Tzu, who stood watching the minnows min-nows in the stream from the bridge over the Hao river. '"See," exclaimed Chuang Tzu. "how the minnows are darting about. That Is the pleasure of fishes." "But," dryly objected Hui Tzu, "how is it you, not being a fish, can possibly know in what consists the pleasure of fishes?" "And how," calmly demanded Chuang Tzu, "can you. not being I, know that 1 do not now?" "If I, not being you." answered Tlul Tzu, intending to clinch the matter, "cannot know what you know, it follows fol-lows that you, not being a fish, cannot know in what consists the pleasure of fishes." "Let us go back." Ingeniously said Chuang Tzu. "to the original question. "You asked me how I knew in what consisted the pleasure of tUhes. The simple fact that you asked me shows that you knew I knew." This Is what people have irreverently irreverent-ly termed chop lo-c. but it Is a logic it II the sit me with very much in It. There is hardly an idea which does not anticipate something which the great thinkers of the material universe uni-verse have not attempted to follow up. |