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86 Han characters · 51 distinct forms · 11 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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事行失中謂之姦事，
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治世之所棄而亂世之所從服也。Focus on what an action concerns ↗治世之所棄而亂世之所從服也。Read the relationship between clauses ↗若夫充虛之相施易也，Build a conditional reading ↗是聰耳之所不能聽也，Keep different negatives apart ↗明目之所不能見也，Identify who undergoes the action ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 10 也 × 7 所 × 5 姦 × 4 能 × 4 事 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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莊子 · 天地第十二所不能言自山林來。丘，予告若，而所不能聞與而所不能言。
莊子 · 天運第十四不能見也之於无止。予欲慮之而不能知也，望之而不能見也，逐之而不能及也；
莊子 · 山木第二十目之所不故曰：鳥莫知於鷾鴯，目之所不宜處，不給視，雖落其實，棄之而走。其畏人也，而襲諸人閒，社稷存焉爾。」
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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_008.txt, lines 255–268. XUN 8:3:6, Beida p. 93; Knoblock 2:72
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