【摘要】 西方哲学的核心范畴 ｂｅｉｎｇ（希腊文 ｅｓｔｉｎ， ｔｏ ｏｎ），原来没有统一的译法，五十年代起形成一个统一的译词“存在”，近来有学者主张改译为“是”。这个西方的词原有“有”、“在”、“是”的在合一的意义，但在中文中，“存在”和“是”的意义是不同的。只有用“是”和“不是”构成的肯定和否定命题，可用以辨别“真”和“假”。巴门尼德正是由此提出认识的两条路线，亚里十多德由此制定逻辑学，牛一再分析“是”和“真”的关系。所以我们以为只有将它译为“是”，才可以正确理解西方哲学重视逻辑和科学的传统精神。更多还原

【Abstract】 The basic category Being (gr. estin, to on) in western philosophy was translated into Chi nese as cunzai(存在) in the second half of this century, but changed recently by some scholars into shi (是). This category has a triple signification, i. e. as copula, as existence, and as location. But these three senses are quite different from each other in the Chinese language. We can only use shi (是) and bu-shi(不是) to construct affirmative and negative proPOsitions, in order to denote what is true or false-this is the way proposed by Parmenides and accepted by Aristotle in analysing the rela tion between being arid the truth. So we argue that only the term shi can help us to understand correctly die traditional tendency of logic and science in western philosophy.更多还原