# Strategic formlessness

- Id: `strategic_formlessness`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/strategic-formlessness/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `60b145dd1a5d189dfa2f3df185ece3b4340e4870b10d31b0eaae847fb68404d7`

## Summary

In the received Sunzi, command conceals the disposition of forces and does not mechanically repeat the pattern of a past victory.

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:sunzi.sunzi_bingfa:6"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "無形",
    "formlessness",
    "sans forme"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 9,
    "passages": 41,
    "thinkers": 6,
    "traditions": 5
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
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        "name": "Buddhism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/buddhism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "chinese-thought",
        "name": "Early Chinese thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/early-chinese-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    },
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        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "buddha.anguttara_nikaya",
        "title": "Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/anguttara-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.majjhima_nikaya",
        "title": "Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/majjhima-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "laozi.daodejing",
        "title": "Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue",
        "author": "Laozi",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/laozi/daodejing/"
    },
    {
        "id": "montaigne.essais",
        "title": "The Essays",
        "author": "Michel de Montaigne",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/montaigne/essais/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.laws",
        "title": "Laws",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/laws/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_phaedrus",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-phaedrus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "sunzi.sunzi_bingfa",
        "title": "Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of War",
        "author": "Sun Tzu",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/sunzi/art-of-war/"
    },
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_theologiae",
        "title": "Summa Theologiae",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-theologiae/"
    }
]
```