This guy Xunzi is mildly modern, even heretic, with respect to the prevailing confucians and taoists, no surprise that he is not better known.
See the chapter: "Proper Use of Terms" (正名 zhēngmíng): A name becomes proper for a situation through conventional usage, but once this is fixed it is improper to deviate from this norm. "
See the chapter: "Proper Use of Terms" (正名 zhēngmíng): A name becomes proper for a situation through conventional usage, but once this is fixed it is improper to deviate from this norm. "
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