Laozi · Daodejing · 第十四章
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視之而弗見
Look at it, yet it is not seen.
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39 Han characters · 25 distinct forms · 8 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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視之而弗見，
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What kind of relation does 而 connect here?
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論語 · Recover the object學而時習之論語 · Recover the object未之有也論語 · Read the relationship between clauses本立而道生論語 · Recover the object雖曰未學，吾必謂之學矣Edition, source, and reuse
- Work
- 老子 · Laozi · Daodejing
- Attribution
- Traditionally attributed to Laozi; composition and textual history are debated.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR5c0057 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR5c0057_014.txt, lines 14–21. LAO 14.1; tr. D.C. Lau 19i2: 19; here tr. Karlgren 1975
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