最近听一位学者讲了这样一件事情:中山大学哲学系教授马采先生与他人合著一部《世界哲学史年表》,交给一家出版社出版。由于有关人员不懂“年表”体例,擅自修改原稿,在未征求著者意见的情况下贸然付印,以致在年号问题上造成了一系列无可挽回的差错;该书原稿中还有色诺芬尼(古希腊哲学家)和色诺芬(古希腊历史学家)两个人名,被误改为色诺芬尼一人,也造成了常识性的错误。为此,老教授寝食不安,亲自撰写了一篇勘误性质的文字,打算发表。 Recently, I heard a scholar say something like this: Mr. Ma Cai, a professor of philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University, co-authored a chronology of world history of philosophy with others and handed it over to a publishing house. Since the officers concerned did not understand the “chronology” principle, they arbitrarily revised the manuscript without paying the solicitation of the author’s opinion, causing a series of irreparable errors on the year number. The manuscript also contains Xenophon Two names, Nepali (ancient Greek philosopher) and Xenophon (ancient Greek historian), who were mistakenly converted to Xenophoni, also created common-sense mistakes. To this end, the old professor restless, personally wrote an errata text, intended to publish.