Place

Handan

State of Zhao · Modern China

Capital of the state of Zhao in the Warring States period, a center of debate where logicians of the School of Names such as Gongsun Long sharpened their paradoxes.

Thinkers Connected to Handan

Gongsun Long

c. 320 BCE – c. 250 BCE

A white horse is not a horse. He pushed language until it broke, to see what it was made of.

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