Hanfeizi · 外儲說右下第三十五
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令吏挈壺甕而走火，
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操鞭箠指麾而趣使人，Notice a change in argument structure ↗是以聖人不親細民，Follow an explicit inference ↗是以聖人不親細民，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗Watch recurrence: 人 × 3 火 × 2 而 × 2 則 × 2 不 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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老子 · 第四十七章以聖人不闚牖，見天道。其出彌遠，其知彌少。是以聖人不行而知，不見而名，弗為而成。
莊子 · 齊物論第二以聖人不，方不可方可；因是因非，因非因是。是以聖人不由，而照之于天，亦因是也。是亦彼也，彼亦是也。
老子 · 第二章是以聖人相較，高下相傾，音聲相和，前後相隨。是以聖人處無為之事，行不言之教。
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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_035.txt, lines 784–790. HF 35.18:01 [34]; jiaoshi 607; jishi 7i1; shiping 1334; jiaozhu; m412
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