There have been generally two approaches to solve Gongsun Long ’ s horse paradox:one is abstract,and the other is concrete. But neither ways are satisfying. Inspired by Frege’ s horse paradox,this paper proposes a new solution to Gongsun Long’ s horse paradox. While Frege’ s horse paradox derives from the distinction between concept referred to by con-cept word and extension as object referred to by proper name,Gongsun Long’ s horse paradox derives from the distinction between image as field ( chaos as a whole) referred to by simple name consisting of a single Chinese character and things ( individuals or objects) referred to by compound name consisting of two Chinese characters.
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