 The sparsity of grammatical marks for quantification in Classical Chinese does not require us to read the expression mei ren (“a handsome man”) in terms of the existentially quantified phrase “some x such that x is male and handsome”. But this only makes the Mohists’ point more glaring. If “loving a handsome man” (ai mei ren) may be taken to involve romantic attraction, and not just the kind of filial love that exists between family members, then we can see why the Mohists would consider this a failure of inference.