Hanfeizi · 顯學第五十
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今巫祝之祝人曰：
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「使若千秋萬歲。」Build a conditional reading ↗而一日之壽無徵於人，Read the relationship between clauses ↗而一日之壽無徵於人，Locate a relation ↗此人所以簡巫祝也。Focus on what an action concerns ↗此人所以簡巫祝也。Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 6 人 × 4 今 × 3 祝 × 3 巫 × 2 千 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 正名篇第二十二此人所以於仰而人以為輕，輕縣於俛而人以為重，此人所以惑於輕重也。
荀子 · 非相篇第五之所以為人之所以為人者，何已也？曰：以其有辨也。飢而欲食，寒而欲煖，勞而欲息，好利而惡害，是人之所生而
荀子 · 非相篇第五之所以為然則人之所以為人者，非特以二足而無毛也，以其有辨也。今夫狌狌形笑，亦二足而毛也，然而君子啜其羹，食
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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_050.txt, lines 478–485. HF 50.10:01; jiaoshi 20; jishi 1102; jiaozhu 693; shiping 1794; Watson 127
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