User:Smolee3/Taoist Paradox
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Taoist paradoxes are a series of paradoxes found in the writings of Taoist thinkers Laozi and Zhuangzi by Mozi, a Mohist thinker of the Spring and Autumn Period of China, and Yangxiong, a Confucian thinker of the Western Han Dynasty. They are: "All words are paradoxical" (all words fail to express the truth), "Learning is useless" (learning is not beneficial), "No defamation" (one should not rebut another person's words), and "Argumentation is not victorious" (no winner in an argument). Mozi and Yang Xiong logically analysed these paradoxes in their writings and used them to attack Taoist doctrine[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9].