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57 Han characters · 41 distinct forms · 14 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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「君之所問，
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何足以知之？」Locate the unknown ↗「非吾子無所聞之也。」Keep different negatives apart ↗「非吾子無所聞之也。」Track speakers and addressees ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 4 子 × 3 曰 × 3 君 × 3 也 × 3 孔 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 外儲說左下第三十三足以知之不費金錢，孱不用璧。西門豹請復治鄴，足以知之。猶盜嬰兒之矜裘，與跀危子榮衣。
莊子 · 齊物論第二何足以知長梧子曰：「是黃帝之所聽熒也，而丘也何足以知之！且女亦大早計，見卵而求時夜，見彈而求鴞炙。
莊子 · 徐无鬼第二十四何足以知，而梱祥邪？盡於酒肉，入於鼻口矣，而何足以知其所自來？吾未嘗為牧而牂生於奧，未嘗好田而鶉生於宎，若勿怪，何邪？
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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 210–224. XUN 31:4:2, Beida 500, Knoblock 3:262
- Version
e18a27621ef434940a368defd29e00eee205dfd2- Reuse
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- Text policy
- Source spelling and punctuation retained. Encoding headers, page markers, paragraph markers, whitespace, and leading section numbers are removed from the reading view. No silent script conversion or textual correction.
- Teaching
- zimai · AI-assisted editorial notes. English renderings are excerpt-level reading aids, not a full published translation. Editorial pilot · not independently reviewed.
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