Hanfeizi · 外儲說右上第三十四
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已誅之矣。
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夫子何為誅之？」Locate the unknown ↗「狂矞也議不臣天子，Keep different negatives apart ↗吾恐其亂法易教也，Track speakers and addressees ↗Watch recurrence: 誅 × 3 也 × 3 之 × 2 公 × 2 曰 × 2 狂 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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論語 · 憲問篇第十四夫子何為使人於孔子。孔子與之坐而問焉，曰：「夫子何為？」對曰：「夫子欲寡其過而未能也。」使者出。子曰：「使乎！使乎！」
孟子 · 離婁下夫子何為庾公之斯至，曰：『夫子何為不執弓？』曰：『今日我疾作，不可以執弓。』
莊子 · 山木第二十夫子何為莊周反入，三月不庭。藺且從而問之：「夫子何為頃閒甚不庭乎？」
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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
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3c0005_034.txt, lines 507–517. HF 34.11:09; jiaoshi 564; jishi 722; jiaozhu 444; shiping 1253
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