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    "title": "Strategic formlessness",
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    "summary": "In the received Sunzi, command conceals the disposition of forces and does not mechanically repeat the pattern of a past victory.",
    "body": "In the current corpus, this annotation connects 41 passages across 9 works, including Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses, Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length Discourses, Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.",
    "aliases": [
        "無形",
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        "sans forme"
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        "passages": 41,
        "thinkers": 6,
        "traditions": 5
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            "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/laws/"
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            "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_theologiae",
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