Hanfeizi · 南面第十八
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人主藏是言，
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則忠臣不聽而譽臣獨任。Follow a condition and its consequence ↗則忠臣不聽而譽臣獨任。Read the relationship between clauses ↗如是者謂之壅於言，Locate a relation ↗Watch recurrence: 臣 × 5 言 × 4 是 × 3 不 × 3 者 × 3 於 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 正名篇第二十二是者謂之之足以指實，辭足以見極，則舍之矣。外是者謂之訒，是君子之所棄，而愚者拾以為己實。故愚者之言、芴然而粗，嘖然而不類，誻誻然而沸。彼
韓非子 · 二柄第七制於臣矣，今君人者釋其刑德而使臣用之，則君反制於臣矣。
韓非子 · 南面第十八壅於言者人主有誘於事者，有壅於言者，二者不可不察也。
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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_018.txt, lines 107–115. HF 18.03:02; jiaoshi 127; jishi 297; jiaozhu 163; shiping 557
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