Texts about sound are not sound recordings

Discussion of music and musical fit can guide interpretation without recovering the historical pronunciation of a passage.

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Discussion of music and musical fit can guide interpretation without recovering the historical pronunciation of a passage.

孟子: Repeated graphs do not eliminate the need to analyse senses and readings.

莊子: The narrative mentions musical fit; that does not recover an ancient sound recording.

Why can a general character record fail to resolve the readings in 獨樂樂,與人樂樂?

The written graph repeats across a context involving music and enjoyment. Selecting readings requires a contextual lexical analysis, not copying the first pronunciation listed for the character.

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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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