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青、取之於藍而青於藍
Blue dye is taken from indigo, yet is bluer than indigo.
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37 Han characters · 27 distinct forms · 7 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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- Test one unit.
學不可以已。
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Watch recurrence: 於 × 3 以 × 2 青 × 2 之 × 2 藍 × 2 而 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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Do the two instances of 於 express the same relation?
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No: source in 取之於藍, comparison in 青於藍.
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Argument contrastLearning as transformation and inferenceXunzi illustrates learning through a material changed by craft; the Analects asks a learner to extend a prompt. Both make the learner more than a container of information, but one image concerns transformation and the other an inferential response.
Argument contrastTwo directions of cultivationThe Xunzi opening makes continued learning imperative; Laozi 48 contrasts daily increase in learning with daily decrease in pursuing the way. Read what each text identifies as the object and outcome of cultivation before reducing the contrast to study versus ignorance.
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孟子 · 告子上不可以已不受，今為所識窮乏者得我而為之，是亦不可以已乎？此之謂失其本心。」
莊子 · 天下第三十三不可以已也。其辭雖參差，而諔詭可觀。彼其充實不可以已，
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論語 · Recover the object學而時習之論語 · Recover the object未之有也論語 · Recover the object雖曰未學，吾必謂之學矣論語 · Locate a relation夫子至於是邦也Edition, source, and reuse
- Work
- 荀子 · Xunzi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Xun Kuang; the received collection contains multiple textual layers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR3a0002 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3a0002_001.txt, lines 11–19.
- Version
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- Text policy
- Source spelling and punctuation retained. Encoding headers, page markers, paragraph markers, whitespace, and leading section numbers are removed from the reading view. No silent script conversion or textual correction.
- Teaching
- zimai · AI-assisted editorial notes. English renderings are excerpt-level reading aids, not a full published translation. Editorial pilot · not independently reviewed.
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