# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hui-shi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:34:09.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hui-shi"
name: "Hui Shi"
slug: "hui-shi"
description: "Hui Shi, or Huizi, was a Warring States period Chinese philosopher, and, according to the Lushi Chunqiu, a prime minister of the Wei state (Liang) said to have written a code of laws. A representative of the School of Names (Logicians), he is famous for ten paradoxes about the relativity of time and space, for instance, \"I set off for Yue today and came there yesterday.\""
tagline: "4th century BCE Chinese philosopher of the School of Names"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Confucius_and_His_Disciples_Yanzi_and_Huizi_at_the_Apricot_Altar_%28Huizi%29.jpeg/330px-Confucius_and_His_Disciples_Yanzi_and_Huizi_at_the_Apricot_Altar_%28Huizi%29.jpeg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-370"
deathDate: "-310"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.72
  momentum:             2.962025316455696
  historical:           15.13344666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hui_Shi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "هوى شى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_Shi"
    title: "Hui Shi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_Shi"
    title: "Hui Shi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_Shi"
    title: "Hui Shi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_Shi"
    title: "Hui Shi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_Shi"
    title: "Hui Shi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_Shi"
    title: "Hui Shi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%AB_%D5%87%D5%AB"
    title: "Հուի Շի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%81%B5%E6%96%BD"
    title: "恵施"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%98%9C%EC%8B%9C"
    title: "혜시"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_Shi"
    title: "Hui Shi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_Shi"
    title: "Hui Shi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%B9_%D0%A8%D0%B8"
    title: "Хуэй Ши"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%83%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%A8%D0%B8"
    title: "Хуей Ши"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%E1%BB%87_Thi"
    title: "Huệ Thi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%83%A0%E6%96%BD"
    title: "惠施"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%83%A0%E6%96%BD"
    title: "惠施"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q943012"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump