Hanfeizi · 難一第三十六
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明主賞不加於無功，
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明主賞不加於無功，Keep different negatives apart ↗明主賞不加於無功，Locate a relation ↗安在襄子之善賞也？Locate the unknown ↗故曰「仲尼不知善賞」。Follow an explicit inference ↗Watch recurrence: 賞 × 4 不 × 4 無 × 3 之 × 3 加 × 2 於 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 姦劫弒臣第十四賞不加於誅，無功者皆欲尊顯。而聖人之治國也，賞不加於無功，而誅必行於有罪者也。然則有術數者之為人也，固左右姦臣之所害，非明主弗能聽也。
韓非子 · 難一第三十六驕侮之臣有君臣親之澤，操令行禁止之法，而猶有驕侮之臣，是襄子失罰也。為人臣者，乘事而有功則賞。今赫僅不驕侮，而襄子賞之，是失賞也。
韓非子 · 說疑第四十四賞無功之凡治之大者，非謂其賞罰之當也。賞無功之人，罰不辜之民，非所謂明也。賞有功，罰有罪，而不失其人，方在於人者也，非能生功止過者
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- Work
- 韓非子 · Hanfeizi
- Attribution
- 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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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3c0005_036.txt, lines 503–509. HF 36.08:04 [8]; jiaoshi 322; jishi 804; shiping 1366; jiaozhu 505; m426; Liao 2.148
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