(approx. 360–280 BCE) A philosopher from the State of Qi during the Warring States period who was a contemporary of 庄子 zhuāng​zǐ and 惠施 huì​shī; a scholar of the Jixia Academy who founded the school of Name-Logic

The philosophical text attributed to the thinker of the same name; a two-volume work blending Daoist and Legalist thought that focuses on the relationship between names and reality and the art of governance