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Mozi’s teachings initiated the Mohist tradition of explicit argument, standards of judgment and debate in ancient China.
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Later Mohist work developed more elaborate accounts of language and reasoning. These should not all be assigned to Mozi personally or treated as a direct ancestry of electronic computers.
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Mozi’s teachings initiated the Mohist tradition of explicit argument, standards of judgment and debate in ancient China.
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- Mohism — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Introduction and Mozi and the Mohists
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- Mohism — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Introduction and Mozi and the Mohists
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