death. Thesis 7 is unclear, but also seems to relate to the relativity of time. Miscellaneous Paradoxes Another passage from the attributes 21 more paradoxes to Hui Shi and other members of the School of Names, which they are said to have used in their debates. Compared to the Ten Theses listed above, they appear even more absurd and unsolvable: The last statement in particular, "if from a stick a foot long you every day take the half of it, in a myriad ages it will not be exhausted" is notable for its resemblance to the Dichotomy paradox described by Zeno of Elea. Zeno's paradox takes the example of a runner on a finite race track, arguing that, because runner must reach the halfway point before they can reach the finish line, and the length of the track can be divided into halves infinitely many times, it should be impossible for them to reach the finish line in a finite amount of time. The Mohist canon appears to propose a solution to this paradox by arguing that in moving across a measured length, the distance is not covered in successive fractions of the length, but in one stage. Due to the lack of surviving works, most of the other paradoxes listed are difficult to interpret. Fondness for Analogies A dialogue in the Shuo Yuan portrays Hui Shi as having a tendency to overuse analogies ( , which can also be translated as "illustrative examples") with Hui Shi justifying this habit with the claim that communication is impossible without analogies: A. C. Graham argues that this philosophical position suggests some affinity between Hui Shi and the Mohists, in their shared opinion that "the function of names is to communicate that an object is like the objects one knows by the name" Relation to Zhuangzi Most of the other Zhuangzi passages portray Hui Shi (Huizi) as a friendly rival of Zhuangzi (). Hui Shi acts as an intellectual foil who argues the alternative viewpoint, or criticizes the Daoist perspective, often with moments of humor. The best known of the Zhuang-Hui dialogues concerns the subjectivity of happiness. According to these ancient Daoist stories, Zhuangzi and Hui Shi remained friendly rivals until death. Chad Hansen (2003:146) interprets this lament as "the loss of a philosophical partnership, of two like-minded but disagreeing intellectual companions engaged in the joys of productive philosophical argument." Notes References Hansen,