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 ZǐChǎn 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.