 These are undesirable consequences of this view, but they do follow on standard analyses of resemblance. Did the Mohists really intend it this way? More careful exegesis suggests probably not, but scholarship on Mohist thought has tended to gloss over semantic subtleties in failing to recognize that in Classical Chinese the term for resemblance (tong) is highly polysemous, with different meanings that the Mohists endeavored to distinguish (Fung 2020b). In A86–7 of the Canons the Mohists articulate four distinct senses of sameness or resemblance (tong), along with difference (yi), corresponding roughly to the notions of being identical, being the units of a whole or class, constituting the same object, and being of the same kind: