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凡人之有鬼也，
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必以其感忽之閒、疑玄之時定之。Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗必以其感忽之閒、疑玄之時定之。Track whose, which, and whose perspective ↗此人之所以無有而有無之時也。Focus on what an action concerns ↗此人之所以無有而有無之時也。Read the relationship between clauses ↗故傷於溼而擊鼓鼓痺，Follow an explicit inference ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 9 有 × 5 以 × 4 而 × 4 也 × 3 無 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 說林第二十二此人之所：「宋小而齊大。夫救小宋而惡於大齊，此人之所以憂也；而荊王說，必以堅我也。我堅而齊敝，荊之所利也。」臧孫子乃歸。齊人拔五城於宋，
韓非子 · 內儲說上七術第三十之所以無逐獸者樂而無罰，救火者苦而無賞，此火之所以無救也。」
韓非子 · 內儲說上七術第三十凡人之有管仲對曰：「凡人之有為也，非名之，則利之也。」
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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
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- KR3a0002_021.txt, lines 612–621. XUN 21:8:6, Beida p.361;Knoblock 3:109f
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