Names in government and reputation in refusal
The shared graph 名 connects passages whose speakers are solving different problems.
必也正名乎The political question frames the phrase about names.
CHANT · CC BY-SA 4.0 · KR1h0004_013.txt, lines 40–48名者，實之賓也The saying belongs to a refusal of prestigious rule.
CHANT · CC BY-SA 4.0 · KR5c0126_001.txt, lines 210–217Make the comparison explicit
The shared graph 名 connects passages whose speakers are solving different problems.
論語: The political question frames the phrase about names.
莊子: The saying belongs to a refusal of prestigious rule.
Why is the final question in the trap-and-fish passage important?
It still seeks a conversation. That complicates a simple reading in which the passage rejects every use of language.
Shared words, images, or constructions do not by themselves establish common meaning, authorship, or origin. An explicit citation is identified only where the wording itself supports it.
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