 | Confucius - 1915 - 356 sivua
..."What is first necessary is to correct names," ie, the names of things, and said in explanation : " If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things." (Analects, bk. viii., c. iii.) The mischiefs which arise from miscomprehension, due to the inexact... | |
 | Kuo-Cheng Wu - 1928 - 364 sivua
...uncultivated you are, Lu! A superior man, in regard to what he does not know, shows a cautious reserve. If names be not correct, language is \ not in accordance with the -truth of things. If language be not in _accor3a,nce witET the truth 01 thingsT liffairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot... | |
 | 1911 - 1032 sivua
...long as the spirit is right we can afford to leave the name alone. This is not so. Confucius said, "If names be not correct, language is not in accordance...not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs can not be carried on to success." The good missionaries sent out by the Church Missionary Society... | |
 | Richard Harvey Brown - 1989 - 256 sivua
...... In the night everything gets confused, there are no more names, no more shapes. Adamov (1938) If names be not correct, language is not in accordance...of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. . . . Therefore, a superior man considers it necessary that the names he uses may be spoken appropriately,... | |
 | Philip D. Beidler - 1991 - 366 sivua
...names be not correct, language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language not be in accord with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success" (33). Such an epigraph, we see in retrospect, could now be read as an almost exact measure of the degree... | |
 | Sylvia Staub, Paula Green - 1992 - 456 sivua
...occurred in all human conflicts. It seems that the ancient words of Confucius still hold true: "If names be not correct, language is not in accordance...the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success"18 (264). The net result of these defense mechanisms is what Robert Lifton 19 calls "psychic... | |
 | M. Annette Jaimes - 1992 - 482 sivua
...butchery and cannibalism.21 America Latina The Master said, "What is necessary is to rectify names — If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language is not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success." Confucian... | |
 | Tonglin Lu - 1993 - 218 sivua
...Confucian attitude toward language is expressed in a well-known passage in Lunyii (The analects): If names be not correct, language is not in accordance...of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. . . . Therefore a superior man considers it necessary that the names he uses may be spoken appropriately,... | |
 | Rey Chow - 1993 - 246 sivua
...Confucian attitude toward language is expressed in a well-known passage in Lunyii (The Analects): If names be not correct, language is not in accordance...of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. . . . Therefore a superior man considers it necessary that the names he uses may be spoken appropriately,... | |
 | Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1993 - 316 sivua
...from a famous passage attributed to Confucius and taken to be imbued with his authority: If names are not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language is not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs... | |
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If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. 
