The dispute over Chinese studies

"Hui Shi, a native of Song Dynasty, was a representative of the School of Names and the founder of the School of Dialectics. Like the Mohists, he had tried to study the reasons for the formation of all things in the universe. He said: 'The greatest has no outside, which is called the Great One; the smallest has no inside, which is called the Small One.' In the Mozi, it is said: 'Some cannot be contained by a ruler, which is finite; all cannot be contained by a ruler, which is infinite.' The two are...