Hui Shi
Hui Shi, or Huizi, was a Chinese philosopher and prime minister of the Wei state during the Warring States period. A representative of the School of Names (Logicians), he is famous for ten paradoxes about the relativity of time and space, for instance, "I set off for Yue today and came there yesterday." He is said to have written a code of laws.
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- Tianjin
- Educated at
- Yaohua High School
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1915
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