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 while useful things were destroyed. A non-Zhuāngzǐ work whose title mentions this substance has esoteric “inner chapters” and Confucian “outer chapters,” and was written by Gě Hóng (“guh hong”), whose pseudonym mentions this substance. Mencius compared the folly of war to searching for a fish in a place composed of this material. Human’s natural state is likened to this material in the Daoist term pǔ. An Ancient Greek thought experiment asks if an object made of this material that is replaced one piece at a time is still the same object. For 10 points, name this material used to build the Ship of Theseus. ■END■
ANSWER: wood [or timber; or mù; accept planks; accept trees; prompt on pǔ until read by asking “what material does that term refer to?”; prompt on an uncarved block by asking “what material is the block made from?”] (The first clue is from the Dàodéjīng.)
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