 The Annals of Lü Buwei depicts Yin Wen in an audience with King Min of Qi (r. 300–284 B.C.E.), defending the doctrine that to be insulted is not disgraceful. (Again, we should keep in mind that the details of the story may be mostly later invention.) The anecdote vividly illustrates several of the main techniques by which the disputers conducted their craft. Yin Wen identifies distinguishing features for calling things by a certain name and employs models and analogies to persuade the king. The context of the passage is a discussion of “correcting names.” Because he failed to correct his own use of names, King Min knew enough to be fond of “officers” but not how to distinguish the sort of people properly referred to as “officers.” (Shi, “officer,” was a social rank similar to “knight,” but by this era it had lost most of its martial connotation.) Yin Wen proposes that “officers” are distinguished by four types of conduct: they are filial in serving their parents, loyal in serving their ruler, trustworthy toward friends, and brotherly toward neighbors. The king agrees, indicating also that this is just the sort of person he would appoint as a government official. Yin Wen asks whether the king would still appoint such a person supposing that, on being insulted in public, he did not fight. The king replies that to be insulted is a disgrace; he would not appoint a disgraced person. 