Laozi · Daodejing · 第二十二章
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曲則全，枉則直
Bent, then preserved; crooked, then straight.
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29 Han characters · 23 distinct forms · 7 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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是以聖人抱一以為天下式。
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是以聖人抱一以為天下式。Follow an explicit inference ↗是以聖人抱一以為天下式。Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗是以聖人抱一以為天下式。Distinguish doing, being, and acting for ↗Watch recurrence: 則 × 6 以 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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What does 則 separate in each clause?
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The initial condition and the stated result.
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韓非子 · 初見秦第一以為天下量吾謀臣，外者極吾兵力。由是觀之，臣以為天下之從，幾不難矣。
韓非子 · 外儲說右上第三十四以為天下視者謂明，獨聽者謂聰。能獨斷者，故可以為天下主。」
荀子 · 非相篇第五以為天下己則以繩，接人則用枻。度己以繩，故足以為天下法則矣。接人用枻，故能寬容，因眾以成天下之大事矣。
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論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading巧言令色，鮮矣仁論語 · Follow a condition and its consequence行有餘力，則以學文論語 · Follow a condition and its consequence過則勿憚改論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading父在，觀其志；父沒，觀其行Edition, source, and reuse
- Work
- 老子 · Laozi · Daodejing
- Attribution
- Traditionally attributed to Laozi; composition and textual history are debated.
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- Kanseki Repository · KR5c0057 · base edition tls
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR5c0057_022.txt, lines 14–21. LAO 22.1 tr. D.C. Lau 19i2: 33 ; here tr. Karlgren 1975
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