Cover -- Half-title -- Series-tilte -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The China syndrome: language, logical form, translation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Guidance and constraint -- 3 On the very idea of translation -- 3.1 Whorf 's hypothesis -- 3.2 Deflationary philosophical anthropology -- 3.3 Von Humboldt's legacy -- 4 Case-study 1: conditionals -- 5 Case-study 2: Chinese is a list -- 6 Logical form -- 6.1 Against 'logical' translation -- 6.2 Why form might matter -- 6.3 Procrustean logic -- 7 Case-study 3: being -- 8 Case-study 4: truth -- 9 Case-study 5: nouns and ontology -- 10 Conclusion -- 2 Aristotelian whispers -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What's in a name? -- 3 Disputation, discrimination, inference -- 4 The need for logic -- 5 Finite and infinite -- 6 The simple and the complex -- 7 All the things there are -- 8 How many questions? -- 9 Relatively speaking -- 10 Particular and general -- 11 Translating the untranslatable -- Epilogue -- Glossary of technical terms -- References -- Index.