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ArticleCognitive processing2024

Cognitive entailments among "the true, the good, the beautiful": a mainland Chinese sample.

Xinchi Yu, Ernst Pöppel, Weidong Zhan, Yan Bao

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Xinchi YuSchool of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6165-7909
Ernst PöppelSchool of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Weidong ZhanDepartment of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Yan BaoSchool of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China. baoyan@pku.edu.cn.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 31371018National Natural Science Foundation of China 31771213
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Abstract

Philosophers and cognitive scientists have long debated about the entailments among "the true, the good, the beautiful" (TGB hereafter). In the current article, we directly probed mainland Chinese subjects' cognitive entailment among TGB. Using 1-7 (Experiment 1) and 1-6 (Experiment 2) Likert scales, we convergently observed that mainland Chinese subjects tend to think that the beautiful is not the true, and that the good is the beautiful. Additionally, Experiment 1 also revealed that mainland Chinese subjects tend to think that the true is not the beautiful. Some of these results may reflect anthropological universals, and some others may reflect cultural specifics. Experiment 3 revealed that the most popular translation of TGB in Chinese into English is rather "the true, the kind, the beautiful", suggesting that the three concepts mapped to TGB in Chinese is not one-to-one mapped to the three concepts mapped to TGB in English. Therefore, caution should be exercised when making cross-linguistic or cross-cultural comparisons about TGB in the future.

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CognitionAdolescentAdultChinaConcept FormationCross-Cultural ComparisonEast Asian PeopleFemaleHumansJudgmentMaleThinkingYoung AdultBeautyEntailmentInferenceMoralThe true, the good, the beautiful

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