The Logicians or School of Names (Chinese 名家: Míng jiā) was a Chinese philosophical school that grew out of Mohism in the Warring States Period in 479–221 BCE. It is also sometimes called Hsing Ming Chia, the School of Forms and Names.
Their philosophy is often considered to be kin to those of sophists or of dialecticians. Needham notes that their works have been lost, except for the partially preserved Kungsun Lung Tzu, and except for the paradoxes of Chapter 33 of Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi). Needham also notes that the disappearance of the greater part of Kungsun Lung Tzu (Gongsun Longzi) must be considered one of the worst losses in the ancient Chinese books, as what remains is said to reach the highest point of ancient Chinese philosophical writing.
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