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At the exact point where the text must name the ultimate, both hand over an admitted placeholder · a verb-phrase, a 'designation' · and record on the page that the true name is not being given.
Of the source of all things: 'I do not know its name, and I give it the designation of the Dao (the Way or Course). Making an effort (further) to give it a name I call it The Great' · after ch. 1 has already ruled that 'the name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.'
set against Exodus 3:13-14
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