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76 Han characters · 51 distinct forms · 11 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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將由夫愚陋淫邪之人與？
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則是曾鳥獸之不若也，Keep different negatives apart ↗則是曾鳥獸之不若也，Build a conditional reading ↗彼安能相與群居而無亂乎？Locate the unknown ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 8 而 × 5 則 × 4 與 × 3 將 × 2 由 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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論語 · 陽貨篇第十七三年之喪宰我問：「三年之喪，期已久矣。君子三年不為禮，禮必壞；三年不為樂，樂必崩。舊穀既沒，新穀既升，鑽燧改火
論語 · 陽貨篇第十七三年之喪仁也！子生三年，然後免於父母之懷。夫三年之喪，天下之通喪也，予也有三年之愛於其父母乎！」
孟子 · 滕文公上三年之喪之禮，吾未之學也；雖然，吾嘗聞之矣。三年之喪，齋疏之服，zhan飦粥之食，自天子達於庶人，三代共之。」
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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_019.txt, lines 832–842. XUN 19:9c:1, Beida p.326; Knoblock 3:70
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- Teaching
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