Hui Shih (c.380–305 B.C.), Chinese philosopher, prime minister of the state of Wei, and a leading member of the School of Names (ming chia, also referred to as pien che, the Dialecticians or Sophists). As a friend and debating partner of the Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu, Hui Shih parried Chuang Tzu’s poetic, rhapsodic, and meditationbased intuitions with sophisticated logic and analytic rigor. An advocate of the Mohist idea of impartial concern for others (chien ai) and an opponent of war, he is most famous for his Ten Paradoxes, collected in the Chuang Tzu. Though Hui Shih’s explanations are no longer extant, paradoxes such as ‘I go to Yüeh today but arrived yesterday’ and ‘The south has no limit yet has a limit’ raise issues of relativity and perspectivism with respect to language, values, and concepts such as space and time. See also CHUANG TZU. R.P.P. & R.T.A.