A man from the state of Song named Er Shuo was renowned for his eloquence in his time. No one from the famous Jixia Academy in the state of Qi could defeat him in his argument that "a white horse is not a horse."
However, when he passed through a checkpoint riding his white horse, he would always pay the horse tax and never argued with the guards that a white horse is not a horse.
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