Hanfeizi · 觀行第二十四
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故明主不窮烏獲以其不能自舉；
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故明主不窮烏獲以其不能自舉；Follow an explicit inference ↗故明主不窮烏獲以其不能自舉；Keep different negatives apart ↗故明主不窮烏獲以其不能自舉；Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗故明主不窮烏獲以其不能自舉；Track whose, which, and whose perspective ↗不困離朱以其不能自見。Identify who undergoes the action ↗Watch recurrence: 不 × 4 故 × 2 以 × 2 其 × 2 能 × 2 自 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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莊子 · 庚桑楚第二十三不能自見曰：「目之與形，吾不知其異也，而盲者不能自見；耳之與形，吾不知其異也，而聾者不能自聞；心之與形，吾不知其異也，而狂者不能自得。
荀子 · 子道篇第二十九不能自舉：「由，志之，吾語汝：雖有國士之力，不能自舉其身，非無力也，勢不可也。故入而行不脩，身之罪也；出而名不章，友之過也。故君子入則篤
莊子 · 逍遙遊第一不能自舉種，我樹之成而實五石，以盛水漿，其堅不能自舉也。剖之以為瓢，則瓠落無所容。非不呺然大也，吾為其無用而掊之。」
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- Work
- 韓非子 · Hanfeizi
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- Traditionally associated with Han Fei; authorship of individual chapters is not uniform or certain.
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- Kanseki Repository · KR3c0005 · base edition tls
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- KR3c0005_024.txt, lines 73–79. HF 24.02:04; jishi 479; jiaozhu 273; shiping i35
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