These posts are obviously a lot of yanging. They make positive declarations about the nature of things.
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I do sometimes try to put an empty edge on things—usually in the form of a question—something that will invite the reader to think outside their box and mine—but in the end, it’s admittedly an excessive lot of yanging. Perhaps this is unavoidable. Words are a yanging.
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It must be the reader, therefore, who supplies a balancing lump of yin. Doubt, if it furthers the process, is some of that yin. Certainly belief, taking things as unambiguously the case, only leads to being thoroughly yanged.
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The Inner Chapters are also unavoidably a yanging. But, as I frequently note (in agreement with their own testimony and that of their later interpreters), they are presented in such a way as to also be a yinning. If “the radiance of drift and doubt is the sage’s only map” (2:29), then it is understandable that the medium by which sagacity is presented also be ambiguous.
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I have often spoken to this, and a series on Words will speak to it still further.