Shěn Yǒudǐng 沈有鼎

(1908–1989) Chinese logician and philosopher whose work played a major role in the twentieth-century interpretation of the Mòjīng. Unlike earlier scholars who approached the Mohists primarily as philologists or historians of philosophy, Shěn examined the canons through the lens of modern logic and formal reasoning. His Mòjīng de luójíxué (Logic of the Mòjīng) and other writings helped establish the study of Mohist logic as a distinct field and shaped several generations of scholarship on the logical, mathematical, and epistemological dimensions of the Mòjīng. Other important articles are his ‘Tán Gōngsūnlóng — jiān lùn “Mòbiàn” sān pài’ (‘On Gōngsūnlóng — also discussing the three schools of the Mòbiàn’) and ‘Mòjīng zhōng yǒuguān “bùdìngchēng pànduàn” de zhēnglùn’.