Guest guest Posted March 26, 2004 Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 Emmanuel, > I like your metaphors here. They're not mine; Wiseman has done a great job of preserving the metaphoric associations in English, while also keeping one-to-one relationships to the source Chinese. > In anatomy you can see it so simply. If > there are no muscle antagonists, then principle muscles will contract ... > in sometimes painful ways. [ . . . ] Yes, the whole structure of Chinese medical thought is based on complementary antagonisms, just like bodily structure itself. One of the things lost with paraphrase translations is the structure behind the metaphors, sometimes the metaphor itself. Yin-yang are not just principles singularly applied, they are the top-level of the logical structure that pervades every aspect of Chinese medical thought. Bob Robert L. Felt bob Paradigm Publications www.paradigm-pubs.com 202 Bendix Drive 505 758 7758 Taos, New Mexico 87571 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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