 Collapsing the distinction between so and not-so, admissible and inadmissible is a prominent topic in the famous “Discourse on Equalizing Things,” Book 2 of the  Zhuangzi.  Though generally critical of the disputers (among whom its author may nevertheless once have numbered), the text agrees that such distinctions can be collapsed or reversed, depending on what standards of judgment we choose to adopt. It is thus firmly opposed to the orthodoxy, represented by Analects (see the entry on the  Confucius),  the Mohists,  Xunzi,  and Lü Buwei, that clear, fixed public standards must be set for the use of names, since without them, patterns of use will vary and social chaos is likely to ensue. The Zhuangzi suggests that disorder does not invariably follow from “linguistic liberalism,” and indeed that fixed standards are unattainable and unnecessary for communication. 