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Tsze-lu said, "The ruler of Wei has been waiting for you, in order
with you to administer the government. What will you consider the first thing to be done?"
The Master replied, "What is necessary is to rectify names.... If names be not correct, language is
not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried
on to success.... What the superior man requires is just that in his words there may be nothing incorrect."
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