Tán Jièfǔ 譚戒甫

(1887–1974) Chinese scholar whose studies of the Mòjīng, Gōngsūn Lóng, and Buddhist yīnmínghelped shape twentieth-century discussions of Chinese logic. He is particularly associated with attempts to recover Mòbiàn as an independent tradition of reasoning and to interpret it through systematic comparison with both Indian and Western logical traditions. His Mòjīng yìjiě (1935) presents the Mòjīng as a coherent body of logical, epistemological, and scientific theory; Mòbiàn fāwēi seeks to reconstruct the history and structure of Mohist dialectics; and Mòjīng fēnlèi yìzhùreorganises the Mohist canons into twelve subject areas ranging from logic and epistemology to mathematics, mechanics, and ethics. Together these works represent one of the earliest sustained attempts to recover and reinterpret Mòbiàn within a comparative history of logic.