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China Is Not Beijing,Beijing Is China
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Pages: 48
Year: Issue:  26
Journal: Beijing Review

Keyword:  trainedperceivedsimplifyrealityresidereasoningstatementlikelythinkingelsewhere;
Abstract: <正>A first-time visitor to Beijing could fall into a trapthinking the following:1.All people in Beijing are Chinese.2.You reside in Beijing.3.You must be Chinese.An expression like the one above would becalled a syllogism,a way of arguing using twostatements to prove that a third statement itrue.These tools of Aristotelian logic are whaWesterners have been trained to use in reasoning processes.We tend to simplify so-called"perceived reality"in this way.
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