 The Mohists appear to have been particularly concerned about potentially misleading formal parallels. We can illustrate their worries by considering a series of examples that contrast parallels they accept with others they reject. Recall that they affirm the parallel utterances “white horses are horses, riding white horses is riding horses” and “black horses are horses, riding black horses is riding horses.” As they see it, this sort of parallel could provide analogical grounds for also affirming “Jane is a person, caring about Jane is caring about people” and presumably also “neighbors are people, helping neighbors is helping people.” This category of cases the Mohists call “this and so,” (shì ér rán 是而然) because the first part of the utterance correctly states that something is “this” (shì 是) with respect to some kind name (as white or black horses are “this” with respect to ‘horse’), while the second part correctly states that some action is “so” (rán 然) with respect to some predicate (as riding white or black horses satisfies the predicate ‘riding horses’). Cases of the “this and so” kind (lèi 類) can be offered as analogical parallels to support other “this and so” utterances on the grounds that they present the same kind of case. 