英文摘要
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As one of the chapters that is hard to understand in the Zhuangzi, the chapter of Qiwulun, which is commonly translated into On Equalizing Things, is well known for being constituted by a paragraph where Zhuangzi tries to convey some sophisticated message by the zhima zhiyu or the metaphors of "finger" and "horse," which had been involved in numerous interpretations in the long history of Chinese thought. For the purpose of understanding the zhima zhiyu in a much more reasonable way, this article attempts to criticize three typical interpretations held respectively by Chen Guying, Tang Chuni, and Mou Zongsan, by which several neglected aspects of the paragraph are expected to be clarified.
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