≪三國演義≫ 眞僞檢證論의 論理的 問題點 一考 ― ‘空城計’를 위주로

Abstract

The Romance of Three Kingdoms is a book that had been collected and assembled by Luo, Guan-zhong; he wrote this book by collecting history books and private stories since the age of the Three Kingdoms. So the genre of this book is faction, there is a mixture of fact and fiction. Since the Revolution in China, democratic governance has been established, and the evaluation of the characters in the Romance of Three Kingdoms has been different from the previous one. In the period of the dynasty, Liu, Bei was adored, but in the Democratic era, Cao, Cao has been reevaluated and his value has risen, because he showed a political superiority. At the same time, it is popular to find fiction parts in that book, let’s call it 'verifying theory of the truth and fiction of the Romance of Three Kingdoms.' The Romance of Three Kingdoms is a kind of history book, at least many people think so, it is therefore meaningful to find its fiction. However, some of the claims of 'verifying theory of the truth and fiction' are not valid in a methodological way; first, they blindly believe in the history recordly, second, often they rely on reasoning without a basis for accurate facts, thirdly, Follow the conclusions made by the previous two methods without criticizing them. In other words, there seems to be a tendency of confirmation bias in authenticity verification. In this paper, we have discussed the following three cases: take the pledge of brotherhood; Cao, Cao kills Lv, Bo-she’s whole family; the stratagem of the empty city.