Laozi · Daodejing · 第三十八章
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是以大丈夫處其厚不居其薄；
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是以大丈夫處其厚不居其薄；Follow an explicit inference ↗是以大丈夫處其厚不居其薄；Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗是以大丈夫處其厚不居其薄；Track whose, which, and whose perspective ↗是以大丈夫處其厚不居其薄；Keep different negatives apart ↗Watch recurrence: 其 × 4 處 × 2 不 × 2 居 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 解老第二十處其厚不大丈夫」者，謂其智之大也。所謂〓#「處其厚不處其薄」者，行情實而去禮貌也。
韓非子 · 解老第二十去彼取此其華」者，必緣理不徑絕也。所謂〓#「去彼取此」者，去貌徑絕，而取緣理好情實也。故曰：「去彼取此。」
老子 · 第十二章故去彼取人行妨。是以聖人之治也，為腹不為目。故去彼取此。
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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_038.txt, lines 43–48. LAO 38.4; tr. D.C. Lau 1982: 57; here tr. Karlgren 1975
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