LOGICIAN

also called Dialectician any member of a school of Chinese philosophers of the Warring States period (475221 Bc). In Chinese the school is called Ming-chia (Pinyin Mingjia), School of Names, because one of the problems addressed by the Logicians was the correspondence between name and actuality. In addition, they discussed such problems as existence, relativity, space, time, quality, and causes. The school was small and had little influence on subsequent Chinese intellectual history, but it was the only Chinese philosophical school devoted primarily to logical and epistemological problems. Hui Shih (c. 380c.305 BC) and Kung-sun Lung (b. 380 BC) were the most prominent members of the school.