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盡信《書》，則不如無《書》
To trust the Documents in every detail would be worse than having no Documents.
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則不如無《書》。
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Watch recurrence: 仁 × 3 書 × 2 不 × 2 無 × 2 於 × 2 而 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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Question in commonAcknowledge what the evidence warrantsThese passages support a learning exercise in intellectual restraint. The connection is an editorial comparison, not a claim of shared authorship or dependence.
Argument contrastTwo ways to question inherited authorityHanfeizi makes changed circumstances a reason to reconsider practices. Mencius challenges unqualified acceptance of a particular received text. The comparison concerns how a reader evaluates inheritance; it does not make their standards of judgment identical.
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荀子 · 議兵篇第十五無敵於天感忽悠闇，莫知其所從出；孫、吳用之，無敵於天下，豈必待附民哉！」
荀子 · 正論篇第十八無敵於天舜擅讓。」是不然。天子者、埶位至尊，無敵於天下，夫有誰與讓矣？道德純備，智惠甚明，南面而聽天下，生民之屬莫不振動從服以化順之，
孟子 · 公孫丑上無敵於天母，自生民以來未有能濟者也。如此，則無敵於天下。無敵於天下者，天吏也。然而不王者，未之有也。」
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論語 · Keep different negatives apart未之有也論語 · 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 · Identify a comparison and its standard未若貧而樂道，富而好禮者也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_014.txt, lines 48–55. MENG 7B03:01 tr. D. C. Lau 2.287
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