A formal logical apparatus requires rules operating on syntactic/propositional structures; if Mohist inference were purely semantic resemblance, it couldn't account for valid inferences between dissimilar domains.
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Syntactic/propositional structures(as used in logic)
The way statements are arranged and connected using logical rules, based on their form rather than their meaning—like how 'A and B' has the same logical structure as 'cats and dogs.'
Valid inferences(as used in logic)
Conclusions that logically follow from the information you started with—if the starting points are true, the conclusion must be true.