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Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Text

Introduction: Getting Our Ontological Assumptions Right

Chapter 1. Deep Ontology: A Fishy Business
Chapter 2. Divining in a Homological Cosmos
Chapter 3. Figurative Thought for a Coherent Cosmology
Chapter 4. Cosmological Change: Historical Homologism and ‘Chinese Thought’
Chapter 5. Scale, Cognition and Cultural Difference

Conclusion: Cosmic Coherence and Correlative Comparison

Appendix: The Content of the Yijing

Glossary of Key Chinese Terms
References
Index

Cosmic Coherence

A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination

William Matthews

200 pages, 11 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80073-268-1 Hb Published (November 2021)

eISBN 978-1-80073-269-8 eBook