Analects · 述而篇第七

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述而篇第七 · 822 characters
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READING NOTE · r149Connection / Structure

舉一隅不以三隅反,則不復也

If shown one corner someone does not return with the other three, I do not repeat the lesson.

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22 Han characters · 16 distinct forms · 5 units separated by the witness’s punctuation

  1. Establish the frame. Read the surrounding chapter. Who speaks, what is being discussed, and which earlier words supply the context?
  2. Test one unit. 「不憤不啟, Mark a possible predicate and its participants. Record what you have supplied rather than found explicitly in the text.
  3. Reconstruct the argument. Connect the units in your own words. Where does a description, question, contrast, or consequence depend on your interpretation?
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Watch recurrence: 不 × 6 隅 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.

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An inference extending the one corner to the other three.

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Argument contrastLearning as transformation and inference

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孟子 · Identify means, basis, and purpose何以利吾國孟子 · Identify means, basis, and purpose請以戰喻孟子 · Follow a condition and its consequence王如知此,則無望民之多於鄰國也孟子 · Identify means, basis, and purpose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_007.txt, lines 62–66. LY 07.08; tr. CH
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89b65734d4386e2478179c77741a968bfc627abb
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