Hanfeizi · 說林第二十二
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湯以伐桀，
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而恐天下言己為貪也，Read the relationship between clauses ↗因乃讓天下於務光。Locate a relation ↗故讓天下於子。」Follow an explicit inference ↗Watch recurrence: 務 × 4 光 × 4 而 × 3 天 × 3 下 × 3 於 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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莊子 · 讓王第二十八天下於子舜讓天下於子州支伯。子州支伯曰：「予適有幽憂之病，方且治之，未暇治天下也。」故天下大器也，而不以
莊子 · 盜跖第二十九自投於河非世，抱木而死。申徒狄諫而不聽，負石自投於河，為魚鼈所食。
莊子 · 逍遙遊第一讓天下於堯讓天下於許由，曰：「日月出矣，而爝火不息，其於光也，不亦難乎！時雨降矣，而猶浸灌，其於澤也，
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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_022.txt, lines 14–21. HF 22.01:01; jishi 417f; jiaozhu 233; shiping 728
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