{
    "schema": "prokopton42-public-concept-v1",
    "id": "emptiness",
    "canonical_url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/useful-emptiness/",
    "language": "en",
    "title": "Useful emptiness",
    "editorial_status": "substantive_editorial_draft",
    "definition_editorial_status": "canonical_evidence_checked_draft_v1",
    "definition_evidence_passages": [
        "passage:laozi.daodejing:11"
    ],
    "summary": "In the received Daodejing, empty space makes a wheel, vessel, and room useful; absence has a concrete function.",
    "body": "In the current corpus, this annotation connects 87 passages across 3 works, including The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ), Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue, Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of War. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.",
    "aliases": [
        "虛",
        "虚",
        "vide utile",
        "useful emptiness"
    ],
    "statistics": {
        "works": 3,
        "passages": 87,
        "thinkers": 3,
        "traditions": 1
    },
    "related_traditions": [
        {
            "id": "chinese-thought",
            "name": "Early Chinese thought",
            "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/early-chinese-thought/"
        }
    ],
    "related_works": [
        {
            "id": "confucius.analects",
            "title": "The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)",
            "author": "Confucius",
            "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/confucius/analects/"
        },
        {
            "id": "laozi.daodejing",
            "title": "Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue",
            "author": "Laozi",
            "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/laozi/daodejing/"
        },
        {
            "id": "sunzi.sunzi_bingfa",
            "title": "Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of War",
            "author": "Sun Tzu",
            "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/sunzi/art-of-war/"
        }
    ],
    "content_checksum": "f4afc33ff248821c2a0aa6ef48177c1e0b48c70466ebe3cf1dd513bec182902d"
}