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[[Huì Shī]] [[惠施]] [[huishi]], 370-310 BCE, philosopher and debating companion of Zhuāngzǐ, without an extant text to his name but whose doctrines are summarised briefly in the Tiānxià, and include a sequence of ten theses ending in the statement that ‘heaven and earth are one body’ (天地一體也). The theses threaten, but perhaps avoid, self-contradiction and have been compared to similar sayings of the biànzhě ‘debaters’.

[[Huì Shī]] [[惠施]] [[huishi]] (380 - 305 BCE), logician, proto-scientist and intellectual sparring partner of Zhuāngzǐ, whose work is mostly lost. 【5Q】

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