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সুন সু যিনি সুন যু বা সুনযি নামেই বেশি পরিচিত, (সরলীকৃত চীনা: 孙子; প্রথাগত চীনা: 孫子; ফিনিন: Sūnzǐ; (উচ্চারণ [swə́n tsɨ̀]), ছিলেন প্রাচীন চীনের একজন সমরনায়ক, যুদ্ধকৌশলী ও দার্শনিক। তাকে "দ্য আর্ট অফ ওয়ার" বা "রণকৌশল" নামক যুদ্ধবিদ্যার প্রাচীন চৈনিক বইটির রচয়িতা হিসেবে বিবেচনা করা হয়। আর্ট অব ওয়ার এর রচয়িতা এবং একজন কিংবদন্তী চরিত্র হিসেবে সুন সু চৈনিক ও এশীয় ইতিহাস ও সংস্কৃতিতে ব্যাপক প্রভাব রেখেছেন।

ইতিহাসবিদদের মতে, ঐতিহাসিক চরিত্র হিসেবে সুন সু'র প্রামাণ্যতা প্রশ্নবিদ্বকর। সাধারণত তাকে চীনের বসন্ত ও শরৎ যুগের (সময়কালঃ খ্রিষ্টপূর্ব ৭২২- খ্রিষ্টপূর্ব ৪৮১) ঊ রাজ্যের রাজা হেলুর একজন সেনানায়ক হিসেবে মনে করা হয়। তবে আধুনিক গবেষকগণ তাকে "ওয়ারিং স্টেট পিরিয়ড" বা "যুদ্ধরত রাজ্য" সময়কার একজন মনে করেন। কারণ, তার রচিত "আর্ট অব ওয়ার" এর যুদ্ধ-বিগ্রহের বর্ণনার সঙ্গে তারা "যুদ্ধরত রাজ্য" সময়কার প্রথমদিকে রচিত অন্যান্য রচনার মিল খুঁজে পান।

• …যে Francisco de Vitoria (pictured), a Spanish Renaissance Roman Catholic theologian, was the founder of the tradition in philosophy known as the School of Salamanca?
• ...that Collective Intentionality is a topic in the Philosophy of Mind that has been explored by John Searle, Margaret Gilbert, and J. David Velleman, among others?
• …that a 2001 discovery of lost manuscripts by Majorcan philosopher and writer Ramon Llull showed that he had indeed discovered the Borda count and Condorcet criterion, and as a result he has been called the father of computation theory?
• …that although the paradox, Buridan's ass, is named after French priest Jean Buridan, it had already been previously stated in De Caelo by Aristotle?
• …that besides being a philosopher, Gottfried Leibniz was an engineer, lawyer, philologist, sinophile, and a famed mathematician who co-invented calculus?
• …that while most Enlightenment scholars criticized the Byzantine system of the Eastern Roman Empire, Konstantin Leontiev, a scholar from the Russian Empire praised it for the very same reasons?
• …that Marc Sautet started the philosophical cafe known as Café Philosophique?
• …that criteria of truth are standards and rules used to judge the accuracy of statements and claims?
• …that a deductive fallacy is an argument that has true premises, but may still have a false conclusion?
• …that Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers is the first dated book printed in England?
• …that Wikipedia has information on everything?
• …that a successful experimental system must be stable and reproducible enough for scientists to make sense of the system's behavior, but unpredictable enough that it can produce useful results?
• …that the ancient Chinese text Huangdi Yinfujing, attributed to the mythical emperor Huangdi in the 3rd century BCE, may have been a forgery from the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE)?
• …that Time magazine editor Otto Fuerbringer was responsible for the controversial 1966 Is God Dead? cover?
• …that alternative theories of speciation besides natural selection include Lamarckism and orthogenesis?
• …that before the 17th century it was believed that all organisms grew from miniature versions of themselves that had existed since the beginning of creation, a theory called preformationism?
• …that children have trouble attributing implicit meaning to aspect verbs implicating non-completion such as start, but find implicit meaning in degree modifiers such as half, as in half-finished?

• …that the philosopher Sebastian Petrycy (pictured) (1554–1626), in Poland, created a vernacular philosophical terminology not much later than did philosophers in France and Germany?
• …that Richard Hanley's book South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating analyzes issues of applied ethics as presented in South Park?
• …that subjective logic can help you deal with uncertainty?
• …that the philosophical question of temporal finitism has never been fully settled?
• …that The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer, a book that analyzes The Simpsons using philosophical concepts, is the main textbook in some university philosophy courses?
• …that an appeals court overturned one formulation of the toothpaste tube theory in administrative law?"
• …that William Frankena "played an especially critical role in defense of fundamental academic freedoms during the McCarthy era" while chair of the philosophy department at the University of Michigan?
• …that Bron Taylor coined the term "dark green religion" as a set of beliefs characterized by a conviction that "nature is sacred, has intrinsic value, and is therefore due reverent care"?

• …that Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya (pictured), a blind Hindu religious leader, has observed nine Payovrata, a six-month diet of only milk and fruits, per the fifth verse of the Dohāvalī composed by Tulasidāsa, which says that chanting the name of Rāma subsisting on a diet of milk and fruits for six months will result in all the auspiciousness and accomplishments in one's hand?