荀學理論建基於道德之外在客觀性，與孔子之言心及孟子進一步發展之心性論所言之主體性、價值自覺相去甚遠，因此長久以來就因其性惡之說而備受非議，勞思光更稱之為「儒學之歧途」。然而，得指出荀學自其出發點發展開去，已成一套一致自足之理論，而其理論本身之內在價值，更是值得我們重視的。

Introduction The connection between language and thought is profound. The majority of our everyday life involves the use of language. We tell our ideas to others with language, we “read” their responses and understand their meanings with language, and very often, we “speak” internally to ourselves when we process this information and make logical conclusions. […]

The idea of consciousness has created major difficulties in the doctrine of reductionism. We shall here give an account for the history of reductionism and the mind-body problem, and try to address a few problems caused by the reduction of consciousness, finally we will see how reductionism can possibly respond.

Introduction Proper names have a number of intriguing properties that are not shared by common nouns such as book, apple or man. Syntactically, in many of the world’s languages, such as English, German and Hebrew, proper names typically do not and cannot take an article (cf. *a/the Thomas). They can neither be modified by a […]