 Contemporary studies sometimes treat these disputers together with the  later Mohists.  Topics associated with them are addressed in Mohist texts, and “Under Heaven” depicts sects of Mohists engaged in “disputes about the hard and white and the same and different,” two central themes of the disputers. The later Mohists probably respected the individuals identified with the School of Names but were critical of them. Numerous passages in the Mohist Dialectics appear to be either rebuttals of their ideas or defenses of Mohist doctrines against their arguments. On the other hand, insofar as ‘the School of Names’ is simply a label for early thinkers interested in language and dialectics, the later Mohists themselves largely fit under this label. 