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或百步而後止，或五十步而後止
Some stop only after a hundred paces; others after fifty.
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37 Han characters · 25 distinct forms · 7 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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填然鼓之，
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Watch recurrence: 步 × 4 而 × 3 兵 × 2 或 × 2 百 × 2 後 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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Does 或 here primarily express uncertainty?
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No. It distributes the participants into different cases.
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Compare argumentsWhich features survive the comparison?Test what transfers from runners to government, and from traps to words. Neither analogy makes its two domains identical.
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論語 · Read the relationship between clauses學而時習之論語 · Read the relationship between clauses本立而道生論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading巧言令色，鮮矣仁論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading父在，觀其志；父沒，觀其行Edition, source, and reuse
- Work
- 孟子 · Mencius
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Meng Ke (Mencius) and his followers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR1h0001 · base edition tls
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR1h0001_001.txt, lines 131–137. MENG 1A03:04; tr. D. C. Lau 1.5
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