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次更舉事顯此三名，自有從能不從所、從所不從能、具從能所。從所不從能者，如飲食名為食。何者？口能食飲、食是所食、而飲食名食者，此即從所名食也。從能不從所者，如云行路。路是所行、人是能行，但從人能行為名也。具從能所者，如云洗。水是能洗、物是所洗，直云洗，通能所也。世間得名既有此三句不同，故諦得名亦有三句不同。

Next, to cite worldly matters further to illustrate these three designations: there are designations derived from the subject and not from the object, from the object and not from the subject, and from both subject and object together. As for deriving from the object and not from the subject: for example, food and drink are named 'eating' (shi). Why? The mouth is that which can eat, and food is that which is eaten, yet food and drink are named 'eating'; this is deriving the name 'eating' from the object. As for deriving from the subject and not from the object: for example, saying 'walking a road'. The road is that which is walked, and the person is that which can walk, yet the designation is taken solely from the person who can walk. As for deriving from both subject and object together: for example, saying 'washing'. Water is that which can wash, and things are that which is washed; simply saying 'washing' applies to both subject and object. Since designations in the world have these three different propositions, the designations of truth also have these three different propositions.