 In the Xiao Qu, for example, the Mohists give an intensional analysis of linguistic contexts involving the expressions “riding” (cheng), “entering” (ru), “abounding in” (duo), “being without” (wu), “serve” (shi), and even “killing” (sha). Their interest seems to have been primarily semantical, with the issue of compositionality at the forefront of their inquiries. They were concerned with whether or not ideographs in combination produced meaningful wholes that are properly analyzed as the sums of their constituent parts. Those not analyzable in this way were likely deemed idiomatic. Consider again the curious use of the phrase “entering wood” (ru mu) in the following line from NO15: