 The Mohists regard all words as various types of “names” (míng 名). They draw no distinction between different parts of speech, probably because classical Chinese words have no obvious morphological features to indicate their different grammatical functions. They do identify three types of names, according to the scope of their denotation (A78): “all-reaching” names, such as ‘thing’ (wù 物), “reach to” or denote anything. “Kind” (lèi 類) names, such as ‘horse’, consistently “proceed to” (xíng 行, go on to be consistently predicable of) all things relevantly similar to each other. “Personal” or “private” names, such as the proper noun ‘Jack’, “stop” in one thing only, the individual that bears the name. Kind names are in effect general terms. They are established by dubbing things of a certain kind by that name. Having named something “horse,” for example, we are committed to applying the same name to all similar things (A78). (As we will see in section 6, the Mohists also seem to recognize how some general terms might refer to things grouped together on grounds other than being members of the same kind.) 