 Here we concentrate on the technique of parallelizing, arguably the Mohists’ most original contribution to early Chinese thought on disputation and logic. (For further discussion, see Yang 2020, Robins 2010 and 2012, and the entry  Mohist Canons.)  As their explanation suggests (“comparing expressions and jointly proceeding”, bi ci er ju xing), the Mohists treat parallelizing as a technique in which linguistic models of a certain grammatical form are utilized to make a comparative point about some other linguistic construction that is in doubt. For instance, the following statements have similar grammatical form: