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25. Mair, Wandering on the Way., p. 129.
26. ibid., p. 19.
27. Graham, "Rationalism and Anti-Rationalism in Pre-Buddhist China," p. 107.
28. Graham says: "Chuang-tzu is deeply interested in types of ordinary behavior
which thinking inhibits and types of knowledge which cannot be verbally
expressed. A player winning while the stakes were low pauses to think when
the stakes are raised, and loses his knack; a woman discovers she is beautiful
and ceases to be beautiful." In A. C. Graham, "Reason in Chinese
Philosophical Tradition," in The Legacy of China.. edited by Raymond
Dawson, (Oxford: Carendon Press, 1964).
29. A. C. Graham, Later Momst Logic, Ethics and Science, (Hong Kong:
Chinese University Press, 1978), p. 21.
30. Mair's translation oflun as "to discuss" differs from that of Graham who
suggests "to sort out," "grade," or "arrange" as its equivalents. But even if
grading, sorting and arranging require no language skills, does Graham really
think that someone could skillfully perform them while making no
distinctions?
31. David Loy, "Zhuangzi and Nagarjuna on the Truth of No Truth," in Essays
on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi, edited by Paul