3. 异于, at the commencement, have crept by some oversight into the text. They must be disregarded. 白马, 白人, 长马, 长人,—白 and 长 are the verb, = the 长之, below. 且谓, 云云, "and do you say? etc.," but the meaning comes out better by expanding the words alittle. The 日谈 says: "The recognition of the whiteness of a horse is not different from the recognition of the whiteness of a man. So indeed it is. But when we acknowledge the age of a horse, we simply with the mouth pronounce that it is old. In acknowledging, however, the age of a man, there is at the same time the feeling of respect in the mind. The case is different from our recognition of the age of a horse."