Chapter 2070 house of lord(8)

There has never been a shortage of eloquent people in history. They relied on their eloquent words to describe truth as errors and errors as truth. To put it in a simple and clear way, they deliberately confuse right and wrong and confuse the public.

, there is a lot of truth on the surface, but there are problems with each of their arguments.

There is a famous saying in Eastern history that "a white horse is not a horse", which comes from Gongsun Long's White Horse Theory. This Gongsun Long was eloquent and once served as a disciple of Pingyuan Jun of Zhao State. He was a relatively rare celebrity among hundreds of scholars.

Tao gives rise to one, which gives rise to two, which gives birth to three, and which gives birth to all things. This is what famous people do, by connecting the intangible concepts in the mind with the tangible things. They make a thing have a name and reality through analysis.

There is a story in the classics of Confucius. One day the King of Chu lost his bow when he went hunting. His subordinates wanted to look for it, but the King of Chu said there was no need to look for it. The bow that the King of Chu lost must have been picked up by the Chu people. This was originally

It was to promote the benevolence and righteousness of the King of Chu, but Confucius said that although the King of Chu did not mind a subject getting a bow and regarded the king and his subjects as "Chu people", his mind was not broad enough. The person who lost the bow was a human being, and the one who received the bow was also a human being.

, everyone is the same as anyone else in the world and is an equal person, so why do we need to add a "Chu" person?

Gongsun Long thought that Confucius separated the Chu people from the people, so he also separated the white horses from the horses. It happened that he was passing through Hangu Pass and did not want to pay customs duties. Then he thought that "the white horse is not a horse" to fool the city gate soldiers.

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Horse refers to an animal in the shape of a horse, and white refers to color. The two are different concepts. For example, if a piece of drawing paper is white, it has no color. Horses originally have color. If a horse has no color, then it

There is only the shape of a horse. For example, use a charcoal pen to outline its lines, but does white have no color?

If the white horse is a horse, then the yellow horse is different from the horse. This means that the yellow horse is not a horse.

It's normal to be a little dizzy. It would be weird if you weren't dizzy. Only the soldiers guarding the city who were stunned released the tax-resisting Gongsun Long.

The sophistry of the West is different from that of the East. There was an advertisement in a Paris newspaper. As long as everyone spent 25 centimes, they could get a trip that was economical and not tiring at all. An Englishman named Brown immediately sent a letter of 25 centimes.

Ding, he soon received a reply: "Sir, please lie quietly on your bed and remember that our earth is rotating. At the latitude of Paris, you have to run tens of thousands of kilometers every day and night."

Latitude can be divided into astronomical latitude and geodetic latitude, but like longitude, it is a calibrated spherical coordinate system. When humans were still in the flat-earth theory, longitude and latitude represented the coordinates of the positions of celestial bodies on the celestial sphere. Human beings discerned directions on sea and land.

It also uses the stars in the sky.

When humans accept that the earth is round, there will be "the latitude of Paris". When humans accept that it is not geocentric but heliocentric, humans can also accept that "the earth is rotating, and you have to run tens of thousands of kilometers every day and night."

of “facts”.

The ancient Greeks already believed that the earth was round, and measured the circumference of the earth by measuring the distance between Alexandria and Aswan. In the Middle Ages, some people used the flat earth theory to use how people on the other side of the earth could stand without falling.

Were it not for Newton's universal gravitation that could not refute the Earth theory, and Columbus's discovery of the New World, mankind might still be stuck in the darkness of self-consistent logic.

But there are unreasonable people in this world. Gongsun Long could convince countless great scholars, but he could not convince the gatekeeper. The gatekeeper nodded repeatedly: "What you said makes sense, but you still paid the tax."

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Although Xunzi is a believer in the inherent evil of human nature, he is also a Confucian. He believed that Yao, Shun, and Yu were the best in the world. However, Xunzi said in the main theory that people like Yao's son Dan cannot be educated, just like being good at hunting.

A person cannot shoot an arrow with a crooked bow, cannot hit the target with a crooked arrow, and there will always be one or two pieces of rotten wood that cannot be carved.

Edgeworth thought very well. The new Act of Union promulgated by the British in 1800 declared the establishment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. This law not only announced this, but also abolished the Irish Parliament and merged the members of the Irish Parliament into the London Parliament.

parliament.

Americans became independent precisely because of "no taxation without representation." The key was the Act of Union in 1801, which declared that the Church of Ireland and the Church of England would permanently unite and form a church, which led to protests by five-sixths of the Irish.

The more people believe in vampires and witchcraft, the more they believe in religion. Edgeworth popularized science in an almost missionary style, and he also founded a town named after his own name in Ireland.

Which one is more worthy of being burned at the stake, a pagan or a witch? Many druids are women, and they are educated. Even in ancient Rome, people once hoped that women could study with druids.

Even if no female druids were actually burned to death as witches, the works they wrote were also obliterated, either directly burned or their names erased, and their research results became the subject of other people's books, especially those of men.

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Women are required to be obedient and full of motherly love like Mary, but Protestantism does not recognize Mary. They believe that the only one who has the Immaculate Conception is the Son.

There are quite a few people who believe that women are born with original sin. Let’s not even mention whether women are made from Adam’s ribs. There is no way they can escape the guilt of being expelled from the Garden of Eden after listening to Satan’s rhetoric.

Believe this.

Not to mention the description of Lilith in the "Book of Glory", the name Erasmus Darwin is very interesting, because Erasmus was one of the main representatives of the Reformation, that is, the man who wrote

The priest said: "I hope that fate can give me freedom as nature has given me."

Darwin is the author of "Evolution", and Erasmus Darwin is the grandfather of Charles Darwin.

The theory of evolution makes human beings no longer special, and makes people no longer regard the differences between animals and plants, animals and humans as absolute and sacred. Human beings no longer manage the world created by the Creator in his own image, instead of God.

's "favorite".

The problem Edgeworth encountered was complex and beyond Georgiana's abilities.

Like this analogy, if you want to do business with the British, you don't necessarily need to know English, and the British can also learn French. However, bills, especially the acceptance bills that are exchanged at British acceptance banks, must understand English, because printing bills must

It is in "written form". If you fill in the wrong form, it will become invalid and you will have to bear the loss yourself.

You also need to understand the British Instruments Act. What if the acceptance bill cannot be paid because the merchant bank fails? You can go to the Bank of England. Merchant banks have very limited reserves, but they have a very large business network. When they have problems,

At that time, the Bank of England, as the "government's bank", would use its gold reserves to handle rediscounting and other services when merchant banks had problems.

You may need to pay more handling fees, but it is better than the money order turning into waste paper. And where does the Bank of England's gold come from?

1,colonial

2, bank notes

The currency in circulation on the market was no longer gold guineas, but banknotes, and the gold was kept in bank vaults.

The British navy collects precious metals from all over the world to enrich the Bank of England's gold reserves. As long as a large number of importers do not leave, Britain's status as a financial power will be difficult to shake.

It is not difficult to break this situation. It does not necessarily need to improve export taxes. Britain is a maritime country, and continental Europe is a continental country. Set up a financial center in a place like Geneva, and then establish a civil law based on the British negotiable instrument law.

Wouldn't it be better to have a system based on negotiable instruments?

What is being fought for here is the status of international bill settlement. In addition to being a credit instrument, bills also have the function of circulating securities. Should bills printed in this civil law system be printed in French or German?

The world's languages ​​are not determined by the number of people, but by their international influence. Under the impact of this force, how many people in Ireland can speak native Gaelic?

The language of a nation has been wiped out, and the meaning of the pronunciation of the word has been forgotten. For example, what does the word "horse" mean?

When night falls, the black horse blends into the surrounding darkness. Does it have color?

Another person also passed the Hangu Pass, that is, Mengchangjun who used cocks to croak and dogs to robber. He took advantage of the darkness and got through before the sun rose.

The color itself is caused by the presence of light, which we feel through our eyes and brain. A blind person with no sense of light sees the world as pitch black. White light is a composite of multiple lights. It is actually a

It's not a color, but black is not a color.

There was another man named Laozi who also passed Hangu Pass, but unlike Lord Mengchang who went east, he went west.

In addition to leaving behind "A Tao can be Tao but it is not Tao, a name can be famous but it is not famous", he also left a famous saying "Trust words are not beautiful, beautiful words are not believed, debaters are not good, and good people do not argue", which means that those who are good at debating

Not a good person.

There is a story about a blind man touching an elephant. You can touch a horse even if you are blindfolded. What does it matter what color it is?

According to Gongsun Long's understanding, the white horse drawn on white paper is not considered a horse, so does the black horse and yellow horse drawn on paper count?

They have the shape and color of a horse, completely consistent with his logic and definition of a horse.

"Zhuangzi·The World" records the shadows of flying birds. Gongsun Long's group believes that the shadows of flying birds are motionless at every moment, just like the animation on the rocking wheel. When the handle is not shaken, they are frozen.

But the birds in the sky are moving, and the shadows on the ground are just the shadows of birds moving in space and time. They have the shape of a bird, just like high-speed photography, and are stationary at a given moment.

The most important and controversial thing in the Middle Ages was universals and particulars. Universals refer to things with the same characteristics. In the wizarding world, they were the difference between humans and beasts. Veela were forcibly classified into the beast category.

This is unreasonable from a metaphysical point of view, so what is the reason for this classification?

If Georgiana were still a teacher, she would be asked to write a paper, but she would probably be hated by her students.

So she doesn't assign homework, and everyone likes her very much. After all, who doesn't like a teacher who doesn't assign homework? Unfortunately, now she is not the person who is eager to please others. This is also a difficult road like Edgeworth.

It was difficult for her to describe her current state. The mood was too complicated. She needed time to think about it. Maybe she would never find an accurate description, but she felt that it was worth spending time and was much more interesting than spending time on dressing up, so she

Just let the maids dress up and be the "model" yourself. Anyway, it's the same as last time at the Rouen Museum of Fine Arts.
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