法

   fǎ    法    fa ‘standard, model’,  objective, universal means of assessing what is yì ‘right’  including artisanal tools such as a compass or plumb line, but extended by the Mohists to include 天 ‘heaven/nature’. The sense of  fǎ  as ‘law’, an instrument of government, is more common outside Mohism, e.g. in the Hánfēizǐ. 。

   法则，规律，标准。《经上》说：“法，所若而然也。”法则是人们遵循它而能够得到一确定结果的标准。《小取》说：“效，为之法也。”效仿就是以要效仿的东西作为一个法则或标准。【YWJ】

   fǎ    法    fa ‘measurement operations’

   fǎ    法    fa(standard), central Mohist term for a standard of correctness with the degree of objectivity, clarity and universal accessibility provided by a carpenter’s tools, e.g. a plum line to determine verticality; used in early Mohist social philosophy and developed further in the Mojing, also by the legalists in the narrower sense of “law”. 【5Q】

   fǎ    法    fa ‘standard, model’,  objective, universal means of assessing what is yì ‘right’  including artisanal tools such as a compass or plumb line, but extended by the Mohists to include tiān ‘heaven/nature’, cf. Tiānzhì  ‘Heaven’s intention is to me like compasses are to wheelwrights and squares are to carpenters’ (我有天志，譬若輪人之有規，匠人之有矩),  Mòjīng A70 ‘fǎ is what something complies with and is so’ (法，所若而然也). Compliance with fǎ is understood in terms of xiào ‘emulation’. The sense of fǎ as ‘law’, an instrument of government, is more common outside Mohism, e.g. in the Hánfēizǐ. 【V1】 

   fǎ    法    fa‘standard’, central Mohist term for a standard of correctness with the degree of objectivity, clarity and universal accessibility provided by a carpenter’s tools, e.g. a plum line to determine verticality; used in early Mohist social philosophy and developed further in the Mòjīng, also by the legalists in the narrower sense of ‘law’. 【5Q】