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Mohism -> Mozi -> Book 10 -> Exposition of Canon I -> 76

為：欲𩁥其指，If you prefer to cut off your finger,
智不知其害， and the understanding does not recognise the harm in it,
是智之罪也。 this is the understanding being at fault.
若智之慎文也無遺，If the consideration paid to it by the understanding overlooks none
於其害也， of the harm in it,
而猶欲𩁥之， but you still prefer to cut it off,
則離之是猶食脯也。 then that things have turned out unhappily is as with eating dried meat.
騷之利害，Whether putrid meat will benefit or harm
未知也， is unknowable in advance;
欲而騷，if you prefer to eat the meat, and it is putrid,
是不以所疑止所欲也。 then eating it is refusing to take the doubt as grounds for fixing which you prefer.
廧外之利害，Whether there was benefit or harm 'beyond the wall'
未可知也， was not knowable in advance;
趨之而得力， if by heading for it you could get money,
則弗趨也，then refusing to head for it
是以所疑止所欲也。 would be taking the doubt as grounds for fixing which you prefer.
觀「為，窮知而𠐴於欲」之理，𩁥脯而非𢜔也，𩁥指而非愚也，所為與不所與為相疑也，非謀也。 In the light of the principle that 'To be 'for' is to give the most weight in relation to the desires, having taken account of all that one knows', when you cut up dried meat it is not wisdom, when you cut off a finger it is not foolishness. When what you are for and what you are against put each other in doubt, you are failing to plan things out.

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