“He was an enthusiast of the extreme type, an intense, unwearying student, a fiery disputant, a keen logician, whose harsh, ascetic nature and imperious will stand out from the background of his unquestioned purity of life.”
“Do not confuse one who is contending earnestly for the faith with the disputer of this age.”
“By contrast, when we turn to Gongsun Long, we encounter a disputer who may have been devoted to sophistry purely for sophistry's sake.”
“The disputer could cite features of different kinds of things by which they could be treated as similar or features of things of the same kind by which they could be treated as different.”