# Terrain and position

- Id: `terrain_and_position`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/terrain-and-position/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `dd55092c27eb49470a5caf023bb73d44f38b2a44aa87fff3c01ec008199190f4`

## Summary

Terrain and position connect relief, distance, routes, morale, and command to an army’s concrete possibilities.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 152 passages across 49 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses, Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses. 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:4",
    "passage:socrates.xenophon_oeconomicus:4",
    "passage:socrates.xenophon_memorabilia:3.3"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "地形",
    "九地",
    "terrain",
    "topologie"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 49,
    "passages": 152,
    "thinkers": 21,
    "traditions": 14
}
```

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