 Several comments about this view are in order. First, the thrust of the view is not that distinctions are “unreal,” in the sense of being illusory, false, or merely an aspect of appearance, not underlying reality. It is just the opposite: countless different schemes of distinctions are all real, with the result that none are privileged. Since no scheme is privileged, the “neutral” or “default” view—that of the world in itself—is monistic, drawing no distinctions at all. On the other hand, another way of understanding “real” is as meaning “fixed by nature itself.” If we take “real” this way, we can agree with Hansen (262) that the Hui Shi position adopts a “non-realist” attitude toward distinctions: it holds that no single scheme of distinctions is fixed by the world. However, if the monistic interpretation is correct, then the Hui Shi position is realist in this sense with respect to the “one unit” or “Great One,” the “null scheme” consisting of the absence of any distinctions. That scheme is fixed by nature itself. 