He is best known for a series of paradoxes in the tradition of Hui Shi, including " White horses are not horses ," " When no thing is not the pointed-out, to point out is not to point out ," and " There is no 1 in 2.

When Liu sent his general Chen Shi to sever the supply routes to the city, Xu struck the enemy head-on.

When Liu Can was overthrown by Jin Zhun, and Shi Le established his state, many of the Huá ( 滑 ) around Pingyang fled west along the Silk Road causing the Xionites to harass Persia-though Pingyang remains the centre of the Huá ( 滑 ) clan even today.

When he grew somewhat older, Bing heard that Consort Shi's mother Zhenjun ( 貞君 ) and brother Shi Gong ( 史恭 ) survived the incident, and so sought them out and had Bingyi delivered to the Shi residence.

When Emperor Xuan accepted the throne, his son Prince Shi was barely a few months old.

When Sima Shi notified her that he intended to make Cao Pi's brother Cao Ju ( 曹據 ), the Prince of Pengcheng, emperor, she managed to persuade him that such a succession would be improper, since Cao Ju was the uncle of her husband Cao Rui, such a succession would leave Cao Rui effectively without an heir.

) When Sima Shi asked her for the imperial seal, she again reasoned with him and refused politely, under the reasoning that she had met Cao Mao before and wanted to personally hand him the seal.

When Ronan is wounded in battle with Vulcan's forces, Medusa states to the Shi ' ar that they had made a big mistake and vows that they will pay for this.

When Alex was a boy growing up in Anchorage, Alaska, United States, his father took the family for a flight in their airplane, which came under attack by a Shi ' ar spaceship.

When rain came and ended the drought, the grateful villagers gave Wen Shi the name " Mother of Dragons " ( 龍母 ) or " Divine Human " ( 神人 ).

When Later Zhao was founded by Shi Le, the capital was at Xiangguo ( 襄國, in modern Xintai, Hebei ), but in 335 Shi Hu moved the capital to Yecheng ( 鄴城, in modern Handan, Hebei ), where it would remain for the rest of the state's history ( except for Shi Zhi's brief attempt to revive the state at Xiangguo ).

When Qin Shi Huang died whilst away from the capital, Li Si and the chief eunuch Zhao Gao suppressed the late emperor's choice of successor, which was Fusu.

When al-Maturidi was growing up there was an emerging reaction against some schools within Islam, notably Mu ' tazilis, Qarmati, and Shi ' a.

When he got into a conflict of words with the general Fan Shi ( 樊世 ), angering Fan so much that Fan physically attacked him, Fu put Fan to death.

When Later Zhao's founder Shi Le defeated Chen in 311, he captured the 11-year-old Ran Zhan as well, and for reasons unknown, he had his nephew Shi Hu adopt Ran Zhan as his son and change his name accordingly to Shi Zhan.

When the Shi ' ar seek to prosecute Mister Fantastic for saving Galactus ' life, Uatu serves as his lawyer.

When Shi defected to the Qing Dynasty in 1646, Koxinga killed Shi's father, brother and son.

When the Shi ' ar asked for the X-Men ’ s help against the invading Phalanx, who had already reached their throne-world Chandilar, the X-Men allied themselves with Deathbird.

When D ' Ken discerns Vulcan's feelings for Deathbird, he invokes an ancient Shi ' ar custom and invites Vulcan to marry Deathbird and become part of Shi ' ar royalty.

When conditions are particularly inhospitable on land, larval breeding may allow continuation of a population that would otherwise die out.

When the secularization of church lands took place ( 1802 ) the diocese covered and had a population of 207, 000.

When Michael VIII captured the city, its population was 35, 000 people, but, by the end of his reign, he had succeeded in increasing the population to about 70, 000 people.

When faced with battalions of tanks, jets, and missiles, the cultural opponent dissolves away into the population.

This absence of investment contributes to the marginalisation of these zones. When unfavourable agro-climatic conditions are combined with an absence of infrastructure and access to markets, as well as poorly adapted production techniques and an underfed and undereducated population, most such zones are excluded from development.

When compared with women of other nations, Finnish women, who accounted for just over 50 percent of the population in the mid1980s, did have a privileged place.

When in 1613 the Dutch attacked the Fortres of Solor, the population of this fort, led by the Dominicans, moved to the harbor town of Larantuka, on the eastern coast of Flores.

When this city is included, the population increases to 251, 494 for 2000.

When the Brunswick Manifesto of July 1792 once more threatened the French population with Austrian ( Imperial ) and Prussian attacks, Louis XVI was suspected of treason and taken along with his family from the Tuileries Palace in August 1792 by insurgents supported by a new revolutionary Paris Commune.

When the railroads through Sweden were built late in that century, Hultsfred received a population boost.

When an IQ test is constructed, a standardization sample representative of the general population takes the test.

When, via random mutation across the population, the photosensitive cells happened to have developed on a small depression, it endowed the organism with a better sense of the light's source.

When the number of particles in one excited state exceeds the number of particles in some lower-energy state, population inversion is achieved and the amount of stimulated emission due to light that passes through is larger than the amount of absorption.

When the bubonic plague broke out in 1634 and 1635 about one third of the population died.

When Egyptian rule collapsed after the invasion of the Sea Peoples, the central hill country could no longer sustain a large nomadic population, so they went from nomadism to sedentism.

When such mutations result in a higher fitness, natural selection will favor these phenotypes and the novel trait will spread in the population.

When there is a bad harvest, as has been persistently the case over recent years, the population faces actual famine: a situation never before seen in a peacetime industrial economy.

When the climate returned to savanna grasslands — wetter than today's climate — and lakes reappeared in what is the modern Ténére desert, a population practicing hunting, fishing, and cattle husbandry.

The name “ Saints ” is an allusion to November 1 being All Saints Day in the Catholic faith, New Orleans ' large Catholic population, and the spiritual When the Saints Go Marching In, which is strongly associated with New Orleans.

When China took its first post-1949 census in 1953, the population stood at 583 million ; by the fifth census in 2000, the population had more than doubled, reaching 1. 2 billion.

When only a sample of data from a population is available, the population standard deviation can be estimated by a modified quantity called the sample standard deviation, explained below.

This comes out in `` When The Bells Ring '', which describes the rallying of the peasants in southern Sweden to repel an invasion by the Danes.

When the Ming Dynasty Chinese astronomer Xu Guangqi adapted the European southern hemisphere constellations to the Chinese system in The Southern Asterisms, he combined Apus with some of the stars in Octans to form the " Exotic Bird " ( 異雀, Yìquè ).

When they came to possess the whole of southern Mesopotamia, the name " Chaldean " became synonymous with " Babylonian ", particularly to the Greeks and Jews.

When the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).

When English explorer John Davis, commander of the Desire, one of the ships belonging to Thomas Cavendish's second expedition to the New World, separated from Cavendish off the coast of what is now southern Argentina, he decided to make for the Strait of Magellan in order to find Cavendish.

When the Christian church split in 1054 between the East and Rome, the region of southern Albania retained its ties to Constantinople while the north reverted to the jurisdiction of Rome.

When the British again refused to accept the 49th parallel boundary proposal, Polk broke off negotiations and returned to the Democratic platform " All Oregon " demand ( which called for all of Oregon up to the 54-40 line that marked the southern boundary of Russian Alaska ).

When the East Germanic tribes left for southern Europe, West Slavic tribes moved in and were the first group to settle it permanently.

When the southern provinces of the newly formed kingdom seceded in 1830 ( Belgian Revolution ), the Dutch garrison in Maastricht remained loyal to the Dutch king, William I of the Netherlands, even when most of the inhabitants of the town and the surrounding area sided with the Belgian revolutionaries.

When the country could not reconcile the issue of slavery and the federal union, the southern Presbyterians split from the original PCUSA, forming the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America in 1861, which became the Presbyterian Church in the United States after the American Civil War.

When called upon to go to the aid of this settlement, which in 1865 – 1866 was sore pressed by one of the mountain Bantu tribes known as the Baramapulana, the burghers of the southern Transvaal objected that the white inhabitants of that region were too lawless and reckless a body to merit their assistance.

When Los Angeles offered O ' Malley what the City of New York wouldn't — complete and absolute ownership of the facility — he left for southern California in a preemptive bid to install the Dodgers there before a new or existing major league franchise could beat him to it.

When Congress passed the Enabling Act of 1802, which authorized Ohio to begin the process of becoming a U. S. state, the language defining Ohio's northern boundary differed slightly from that used in the Northwest Ordinance: the border was to be " an east and west line drawn through the southern extreme of Lake Michigan, running east ... until it shall intersect Lake Erie or the territorial line Canada ; thence with the same, through Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania line aforesaid.

When Congress created the Michigan Territory in 1805, it used the Northwest Ordinance's language to define the southern boundary, which therefore differed from that in Ohio's state constitution.

When he was seven years old, Israel invaded southern Lebanon, a fact he referred to later in life.

When the war was over, the Narragansetts were clearly the most powerful Indian nation in southern New England, and quite soon the other New England colonies began to fear and mistrust the Narragansetts.

When describing the geology of Calabria it is commonly referred to " The Calabrian Arc ", the arc-shaped geographic domain extending from the southern part of the Basilicata Region up to the northeast of Sicily, the Peloritano Mountains ( although some authors extend this domain from Naples in the North up to Palermo in the Southwest ).

When the Netherlands revolted against Spanish rule, beginning in 1566, the territories in what is now Nord-Pas-de-Calais were those most loyal to the throne, and proved the base from which the Duke of Parma was able to bring the whole southern part of the Netherlands back under Spanish control.

When the southern species branched off is not known.

When World War II began, Miami, well-situated due to its location on the southern coast of Florida, played an important role in the battle against German submarines.

When Kansas was admitted to the Union as a state in 1861, the Osage Indian reservation occupied a large tract of land near the southern border.

When asked for his thoughts on the Allied battle plan, Hitler had said, " I think that diversionary actions will take place in a number of places-against Norway, Denmark, the southern part of western France, and the French Mediterranean coast ".

When Kaiser Wilhelm II received news of these murders, he dispatched the German East Asia Squadron to occupy Jiaozhou Bay on the southern coast of Shandong.

When the Celts had superseded the Illyrians, Noricum was the southern outpost of the northern Celtic peoples and, during the later period of the Iron Age, the starting point of their attacks upon Italy.