Hui Shi (also Hui Shih) was an ancient Chinese logician and a major figure of the School of Names (Ming-Jia) whose members are also known as dialecticians or sophists for the sake of their emphasis on rational argumentations and their focus on deep structures of concepts. Hui Shi's philosophical thoughts are primarily delivered in his ten seemingly paradoxical propositions as recorded in the part "Tian-Xia" (ch. 33) of the Zhuang-Zi; these ten propositions are given as follows (with this author's brief explanation in brackets attached to each).

(1) "The greatest dimension [of the universe] has nothing beyond itself and is thus called 'the great unity,' while the smallest dimension [of the universe] has nothing within itself and is thus called 'the small unity.'" [The universe as a whole unity is both the greatest and the smallest in infinity; and the greatest and...