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In Chapter 19 of a work, raw silk and a form of this substance are held up as models for how humans should be. In the Zhuāngzǐ (“jwong-DZIH”), an entity composed of this substance comes to a man in a dream and explains how its uselessness allowed it to be preserved (10[1])while useful (10[1])things were destroyed. (10[1]-5[1])A non-Zhuāngzǐ work whose title mentions (10[1])this substance (10[1])has esoteric “inner chapters” and Confucian “outer chapters,” and was written by Gě Hóng (-5[1])(“guh hong”), whose pseudonym mentions this substance. Mencius compared the folly of war to searching for a fish in a place composed (10[1])of this material. (10[1])Human’s natural state is likened to this material in the (10[1])Daoist term (10[1]-5[1])pǔ. (10[2])An Ancient Greek thought experiment asks if an object made of this material (10[2])that is replaced (10[2]-5[1])one piece at a time (10[1]-5[1])is still the same (10[1])object. (10[1])For 10 points, name this material used to build the Ship of Theseus. ■END■ (10[3])

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