Sunzi · Art of War · 九變篇
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無恃其不來，恃吾有以待也
Do not rely on the enemy's not coming; rely on having the means to meet them.
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是故屈諸侯者以害，
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是故屈諸侯者以害，Follow an explicit inference ↗是故屈諸侯者以害，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗是故屈諸侯者以害，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗Watch recurrence: 以 × 4 恃 × 4 諸 × 3 侯 × 3 者 × 3 不 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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What does 有以 add beyond simply having something?
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It presents a means or capacity for the following action.
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Shared construction何以 and 有以 ask and supply meansThe poem asks by what means people can get through the year without clothes. Sunzi advises relying on having means to meet an adversary. Putting the forms together helps readers distinguish interrogative 何以 from the affirmative capacity expressed by 有以.
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莊子 · 天下第三十三有所不可能包之，而不能辯之。知萬物皆有所可，有所不可，故曰：選則不徧，教則不至，道則无遺者矣。」
韓非子 · 五蠹第四十九不可攻也可以安。」夫王者，能攻人者也；而安則不可攻也。
韓非子 · 五蠹第四十九不可攻也強則能攻人者也，治則不可攻也。治強不可責於外，內政之有也。今不行法術於內，而事智於外，則不至於治強矣。
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論語 · Identify means, basis, and purpose使民以時論語 · Recognize a negative directive過則勿憚改論語 · Track whose, which, and whose perspective父在，觀其志；父沒，觀其行論語 · Identify means, basis, and purpose為政以德Edition, source, and reuse
- Work
- 孫子 · Sunzi · Art of War
- Attribution
- Traditionally attributed to Sun Wu; the date and formation of the received text are debated.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR3b0003 · base edition tls
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3b0003_008.txt, lines 48–56. SUN 8.4 tr. Giles 1910: 76-77. See Guo Huaruo 1962: 139-140; Wu Jiulong 1991: 138-139; Li Ling 1997: 87, tr. Ames 1993: 136; tr. Sawyer 1993: 172
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