"School of Names", at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Annex, accessed 2022.12.12. The Mingjia was "notorious for logic-chopping". Although Deng Xi "established a link between disputation and litigation", it led to an anciently acceptable conclusion "that litigators disrupt social order and should be banned" (3.Deng Xi ΒΆ1).
Chris Fraser, "Deng Xi's Exploits" (2015), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Archive. Accessed 2024.08.06. Si Chuan ordered execution in 501.