Mo che
Mo che
Neo-Mohists, followers of Mo Tzu in the third century B.C., probably organized as a religious or fraternal order, who continued the utilitarian humanism of Mo Tzu wrote the Mo Ching (Mohist Canons) which now form part of Mo Tzu; developed the seven methods of argumentation, namely, the methods of possibility, hypothesis, imitation, comparison, parallel, analogy, and induction; discovered the “method of agreement,” which includes “identity, generic relationship, co-existence, and partial resemblance,” the “method of difference,” which includes “duality, absence of generic relationship, separateness, and dissimilarity,” and the “joint method of differences and similarities;” refuted the Sophists (pien che) theory of distinction of quality and substance; and became the outstanding logical school in Chinese philosophy. — W.T.C.