Laozi · Daodejing · 第十九章

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第十九章 · 146 characters
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READING NOTE · r079Structure / Connection / Predication

故令之有所屬

Therefore give these something to which they belong.

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  2. Test one unit. 絕聖棄智, Mark a possible predicate and its participants. Record what you have supplied rather than found explicitly in the text.
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The object or basis of belonging or attachment.

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韓非子 · 八姦第九令之有所

其於觀樂玩好也,必令之有所出,不使擅進擅退,不使群臣虞其意。

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論語 · Notice a change in argument structure使民以時論語 · Focus on what an action concerns七十而從心所欲,不踰矩論語 · Focus on what an action concerns觀其所由,察其所安論語 · Notice a change in argument structure君子不器
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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_019.txt, lines 14–24. LAO 19.1; tr. D.C. Lau 19i2: 27; here tr. Karlgren 1975
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