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39 Han characters · 29 distinct forms · 7 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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此其所以然者，
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荀子 · 君道篇第十二其所以然給便捷而不惑；其於天地萬物也，不務說其所以然而致善用其材；
莊子 · 秋水第十七其所以然下者不可勝數也。今予動吾天機，而不知其所以然。」
荀子 · 解蔽篇第二十一此其所以私，百姓怨非而不用，賢良退處而隱逃，此其所以喪九牧之地而虛宗廟之國也。桀死於鬲山，紂縣於赤斾；身不先知，人又莫之諫，此蔽塞之禍也
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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_006.txt, lines 188–194. HF 06.02:10; jiaoshi 253; jishi 86; jiaozhu 44; shiping 285
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