title: [A logical framework derived from philosophy of language for analysis of the terms of traditional Chinese medicine and an example for analysis of "kidney essence"].
abstract: The true meanings of the terms of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) need to be analyzed on a logical basis. It is not suitable to use a new term to interpret an old term of TCM, or arbitrarily specify the special term of TCM corresponding to some substances of modern medicine. In philosophy of language, language has a logical structure, which reflects the structure of the world, that is to say, language is the picture of the world in a logical sense. Using this idea, the authors collected the ancient literature on "kidney essence", and extracted each necessary condition for "kidney essence". All necessary conditions formed a sufficient condition to define the term "kidney essence". It is expected that this example can show the effectiveness of philosophy of language in analysis of the terms of TCM.
authors: Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
authors: Jian-hua
authors: JH
authors: Huang
authors: Wen-wei
authors: WW
authors: Li
authors: Qin
authors: Q
authors: Bian
authors: Zi-yin
authors: ZY
authors: Shen
mesh_terms: D007802:Language; D008128:Logic; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D010684:Philosophy; D009626:Terminology as Topic