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It is philosophically interesting and significant to explore the philosophical concern with truth from a vantage point that crosses traditions, instead of looking at it exclusively within one single philosophical tradition (i.e., the Western philosophical tradition). Such exploration can not only enhance our understanding of the nature, scope and characteristics of the philosophical concern with truth but also provide alternative perspectives to our treatment of some of the involved issues. Clearly, the current essay has neither space nor capacity to exhaustively examine all the relevant endeavors in various philosophical traditions. I will focus on the case in the Chinese philosophical tradition. This focus has one more reason: it is especially philosophically interesting and significant to explore the case in Chinese philosophy for the following consideration.
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Mou, B. (2009). Case Analysis IV: A Cross-Tradition Examination—Philosophical Concern with Truth in Classical Daoism. In: Substantive Perspectivism. Synthese Library, vol 344. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2623-1_5
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