Yin-Yang and the Nature of Correlative Thinking

by A.C. Graham

A. C. Graham's Yin-Yang and the Nature of Correlative Thinking was originally published in Singapore in 1986 by the Institute of East Asian Philosophies, long since out of print, this QPUE Revised Edition offers the full original text with the following Older Wade-Giles transliteration fully updated and revised to Fully re-typeset and proofed for typographical errors and Newly indexed, including Chinese characters. "This insightful monograph delves into the nature of thought itself, and in so doing Graham strikes key chords running through philosophy, the social sciences, and comparative religion. His project is to lay bare the structure of correlative thinking, and of everyday thinking itself. (James Sellmann, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Apr., 1988)) About the A. C. Graham (1919—1991) was Professor of classical Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, a noted sinologist he specialized in Chinese philosophical thought and the textual and linguistic problems of Chinese philosophical literature.

Genres: China

200 pages, Paperback

Published December 20, 2016

About the author

Angus Charles Graham (1919-1991) was born in Penarth, Wales. He studied theology at Oxford University and served as an interpreter in Malaya and Thailand while in the Royal Air Force. In 1946 he enrolled in the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he remained throughout his career. An important Sinologist, Graham is credited with introducing into English several little- or poorly-known works of Chinese classical literature and philosophy, and is celebrated for his insightful analysis of these texts. Among his books are translations of Lieh-tzu and Chuang-tzu; a partial reconstruction of the anti-Confucian writings of Mo-tzu and a study of Mahoism, Later Mohist Logic, Ethics, and Science; a comparison of Eastern and Western religions, The Disputers of the Tao; and Yin-Yang and the Nature of Correlative Thinking.

Reviews

[Patty Chang · Rating 3 out of 5]

I get more out of it the more often I read it. I was wishing someone would give an example of how the fanshi made their predictions but maybe that’s just something they have t figured out yet. I wish they would say they had it figured it out yet. I also wish they would be clear about whether the five elements of the various category resonate within categories as well as across categories. I prefer correspondence or resonance theory to correlation all theory because the latter makes me think of statistics and that is definitely misleading since it’s about correspondence not shared variance. It would also be nice if he went into more detail about differences between complementary categories as with the yin hand and the bi are oppositions from Aristotelian world views. I mean black and white are clearly Aristotelian categories but I am less convinced about hot and cold seems. Also, with regard to the five colors. Why those?