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是故其事大辨乎天地，
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是故其事大辨乎天地，Follow an explicit inference ↗是故其事大辨乎天地，Recognize a question or an exclamation ↗總要萬物於風雨，Locate a relation ↗Watch recurrence: 其 × 4 事 × 3 不 × 3 可 × 3 大 × 2 乎 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 哀公篇第三十一可謂大聖哀公曰：「善！敢問何如斯可謂大聖矣？」孔子對曰：「所謂大聖者，知通乎大道，應變而不窮，辨乎萬物之情性者也。大道者、所
荀子 · 儒效篇第八則可謂大志安公，行安脩，知通統類，如是，則可謂大儒矣。大儒者、天子三公也，小儒者、諸侯大夫士也，眾人者、工農商賈也。禮者、人主之所以
荀子 · 子道篇第二十九則可謂大義，而能致恭敬、忠信、端愨以慎行之，則可謂大孝矣。《傳》曰：「從道不從君，從義不從父。」此之謂也。
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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
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3a0002_031.txt, lines 162–173. XUN 31:2:8, Beida 497f, Knoblock 3:260
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