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a formal doctrine of identity-in-difference (indeed it does not present a formal doctrine of anything). But the book does incorporate a kind of synthesis between the earlier concept of Heaven (T’ien) as creator of the world and the concept of Tao as the underlying principle in the universe, to be followed by the sage. In fact the latter conception already merges two strands of thinking : i on the one hand