Analects · 學而篇第一

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學而篇第一 · 229 characters
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READING NOTE · r002Structure / Predication / Reference

未之有也

There has not yet been such a case.

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29 Han characters · 21 distinct forms · 7 units separated by the witness’s punctuation

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  2. Test one unit. 「其為人也孝弟, Mark a possible predicate and its participants. Record what you have supplied rather than found explicitly in the text.
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Watch recurrence: 好 × 3 有 × 2 也 × 2 而 × 2 犯 × 2 上 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.

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This is a negative construction with a preceding pronominal object.

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韓非子 · 十過第十其為人也

管仲曰:「隰朋可。其為人也,堅中而廉外,少欲而多信。夫堅中則足以為表,

孟子 · 告子下其為人也

「否。」「然則奚為喜而不寐?」曰:「其為人也好善。」「好善足乎?」

孟子 · 盡心下其為人也

問曰:「夫子何以知其將見殺?」曰:「其為人也小有才,未聞君子之大道也,則足以殺其軀而已矣。」

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孟子 · Notice an object before its verb何以利吾國孟子 · Keep different negatives apart未有仁而遺其親者也孟子 · Keep different negatives apart直不百步耳,是亦走也孟子 · Recover the object申之以孝悌之義
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Work
論語 · Analects
Attribution
Traditionally associated with Confucius and his disciples; compiled across generations.
Digital witness
Kanseki Repository · KR1h0004 · base edition CHANT
Contributors
Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
Source position
KR1h0004_001.txt, lines 25–29. LY 01.02:01; tr. CH
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