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112 Han characters · 72 distinct forms · 12 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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知隆禮義之為尊君也，
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知愛民之為安國也，Locate the unknown ↗知尚贀使能之為長功也，Notice a change in argument structure ↗知無與下爭小利之為便於事也，Locate a relation ↗知明制度、權物稱用之為不泥也，Keep different negatives apart ↗Watch recurrence: 也 × 11 之 × 10 知 × 8 為 × 8 材 × 3 君 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 飾邪第十九主之道也非者，是邪以智，過法立智。如是者禁，主之道也。
韓非子 · 主道第五人主之道人主之道，靜退以為寶。不自操事而知拙與巧，不自計慮而知福與咎。是以不言而善應，不約而善增。
韓非子 · 人主第五十二人主之道，近習不敢賣重；大臣、左右權勢息，則人主之道明矣。今則不然，
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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_012.txt, lines 900–912. XUN 12:11:2, Beida p.208f; Knoblock 2:191
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