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In chapters 11 to 13, the Mohists argue that without a unifying political hierarchy, people will be driven into conflict by normative disagreement. Because of its importance for Mohist philosophy and because of the obvious analogy with European state of nature arguments, many readers will pay this argument close attention. [...]there are several good reasons to reject these rearrangements (on Grahams, cf. [...]can Johnston really mean to imply that in Mohist disputation, one person asserts and another denies that this is this? (In the sort of dispute the Mohists actually had in mind, if one party calls something ox, the other must call it non-ox.) Review of The Mozi: A Complete Translation 555 Below I note Johnstons tendency to privilege Confucians at the Mohists expense. [...]the Mohists are not saying to identify what the opponents do not accept with what they do accept, but, on the grounds that what they do not accept is the same as what they do accept, to propose it; Johnstons translation would make better sense if the zh came after the tng .