Dèng Xī 鄧析 (ca. 545–501 BCE), Spring-and-Autumn-era Míngjiā (School of Names) thinker of Zhèng 鄚. According to Lièzǐ and other sources, executed by Zǐ-Chǎn 子產 of Zhèng (or Sìzhuǎn 駟歂, Sìchuān according to Zuǒ zhuàn) for cǎo zhú jué 草竹爵 — drawing up a private legal code (the Zhú xíng 竹刑) outside the official ritual-norms. The traditional founder of the Míngjiā tradition that culminated in Hùi Shī 惠施 and Gōngsūn Lóng 公孫龍. Pseudepigraphic author of the Dèng Xīzǐ 鄧析子 (KR3c0003, 2-篇 / 1-juan work) — universally regarded as a Late-Warring-States or Hàn-period composition under his name.