 The text concludes that he wasted his talents “chasing after the myriad things,” in his many directions of inquiry, instead of concentrating on a single path. As a result, he only “ended with a name for being good at disputation.” This dismissal is less an objective evaluation of Hui Shi’s inquiries than an expression of the intellectual orientation of the essay’s Han dynasty author, who values only moral cultivation and commitment to an ethical and political dao (way), not inquiry for inquiry’s sake. It seems likely that we would have considered Hui Shi’s explanations of “the myriad things” to be of great interest. 