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School of Names
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Zhuangzi and Huizi on the bridge: doubt about other minds, or a joke?
Every morning after taiji I sit by the river in the park, and this story comes back to me. It is in the "Autumn Floods" chapter of the Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi and his friend Huizi are strolling on a bridge over the Hao…
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‘Killing robbers is not killing people’: the Later Mohists on inferences that fail
My dissertation is on the Later Mohist texts, and one passage seems to me to belong in any discussion of what predicate logic was invented to handle. In the chapter of the Mozi usually called the "Lesser Selection" (Xiaoqu), the Mohists discuss…
Started by Chen Yuting5 replies267 views -
Zhuangzi and Hui Shi on the bridge: an ancient argument about knowing what someone else knows
I designed railway signalling for forty years, which means I spent my career on one question: what does this part of the system know about what that part knows? Now I practise taiji in the park and read Zhuangzi, and I found…
Started by Liu Jianguo5 replies225 views -
Hui Shi’s Ten Theses: paradoxes for their own sake, or a theory of space?
I am writing my dissertation on the Later Mohist canons, and I keep being drawn sideways to Hui Shi, Zhuangzi's friend and sparring partner. Almost nothing of his own survives. What we have is a list of ten theses preserved in the…
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Gongsun Long
Gongsun Long was a Chinese thinker of the Warring States period, associated with the School of Names (mingjia) and said to have served as…
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Hui Shi
Hui Shi was a Warring States thinker associated with the School of Names (mingjia) and served as a minister in the state of Wei.…