Master is being modest . It is their view that Confucius is a Sage and was indeed born with innate knowledge . What we learn from their disagreement with Confucius 's explicit statement about himself is not the impossible question of whether Confucius was or was not born with innate knowledge we learn , rather , that a Sage can be "modest " and that therefore we have to discount some of his utterances as expressions of his modesty . Elsewhere commentators frame Confucius 's words...











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