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此人主之所以獨擅也，
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此人主之所以獨擅也，Focus on what an action concerns ↗此人主之所以獨擅也，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗非人臣之所以得操也。Keep different negatives apart ↗Watch recurrence: 人 × 2 之 × 2 所 × 2 以 × 2 也 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 君道篇第十二之所以得曉然獨明於先王之所以得之、所以失之，知國之安危臧否若別白黑。是其人（者）也，大用之，則天下為一，諸侯為臣；
荀子 · 禮論篇第十九臣之所以故死之為道也，一而不可得再復也，臣之所以致重其君，子之所以致重其親，於是盡矣。故事生不忠厚、不敬文，謂之野；送死不忠厚、不敬
莊子 · 讓王第二十八臣之所以大王也。今大王欲廢法毀約而見說，此非臣之所以聞於天下也。」
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- Work
- 韓非子 · Hanfeizi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Han Fei; authorship of individual chapters is not uniform or certain.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR3c0005 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3c0005_005.txt, lines 194–195. HF 05.02:09; jiaoshi 690; jishi 68; jiaozhu 37; shiping 268
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