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Mozi

Mozi’s teachings initiated the Mohist tradition of explicit argument, standards of judgment and debate in ancient China.

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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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Sources

  1. Mohism — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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