Preserve the form before interpreting it
恒 and 无 are visible source forms. Their preservation does not by itself explain their textual history.
非恒道The graph 恒 is retained as a property of this witness.
tls · CC BY-SA 4.0 · KR5c0057_001.txt, lines 14–25吾生也有涯，而知也无涯The witness uses 无 in the contrast.
CHANT · CC BY-SA 4.0 · KR5c0126_003.txt, lines 19–29Make the comparison explicit
恒 and 无 are visible source forms. Their preservation does not by itself explain their textual history.
老子: The graph 恒 is retained as a property of this witness.
莊子: The witness uses 无 in the contrast.
If a familiar edition has different wording from the portal, what should you compare first?
The named editions and the exact surrounding text, then the kind of difference. A mismatch alone does not show which witness is earlier or which reading is preferable.
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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