 A great deal of scholarship on Mohist logic in the past 50 years has been devoted to explicating Mohist texts with the purpose of identifying basic similarities with Western logical notions or principles (e.g., Zong 2000), or arguing that among the Mohists’ basic aims was a program for developing a formal theoretical apparatus comparable to, say, Aristotle’s categorical logic or the elementary propositional logic of the Stoics (e.g, Zhang and Liu 2007). Alternatively, it has been claimed that embodied in the Mohists’ account of disputation (bian) was in fact a theory of logical analysis motivated by a desire to deduce particular, informative statements about the world from general propositions (Harbsmeier 1998). According to Harbsmeier, “The aim of logical analysis was to establish a correct description of the world”.