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75 Han characters · 50 distinct forms · 11 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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將有所止之，
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胡為乎其不可以相及也？Distinguish doing, being, and acting for ↗胡為乎其不可以相及也？Recognize a question or an exclamation ↗胡為乎其不可以相及也？Track whose, which, and whose perspective ↗胡為乎其不可以相及也？Keep different negatives apart ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 4 或 × 4 不 × 4 有 × 3 止 × 3 也 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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莊子 · 天道第十三乎其不可遺，故萬物備。廣廣乎其无不容也，淵淵乎其不可測也。形德仁義，神之末也，非至人孰能定之！
莊子 · 天下第三十三其不可以使人憂，使人悲，其行難為也，恐其不可以為聖人之道，反天下之心，天下不堪。墨子雖獨能任，奈天下何！離於天下，其去王也遠矣。
韓非子 · 解老第二十不可以相故曰：「道，理之者也。」物有理，不可以相薄，物有理不可以相薄，故理之為物之制。
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- 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_002.txt, lines 250–261. XUN 2:8:2, ed. Beida p. 21; Knoblock 1:155
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- 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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