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Elements carries 5 debated or debunked facts of 75 total, six point seven percent, against an atlas wide baseline under one percent. Of the type's 10 live elements, exactly five carry any contested fact at all, Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water, the Chinese wu xing, and all five carry the identical claim.

What Things Are Made Of, Against How Phases Succeed

"The standard English rendering 'five elements' invites a false equation with the Greek four. The Greek scheme asks what things are made of; the wu xing scheme asks how phases succeed and restrain one another. Both renderings are in scholarly use and the choice is not settled, but the equation with the Greek elements is not defensible." The sentence is word for word identical on all five phases.

Five Phases, One Argument About Translation

The remaining five elements in the type, the Greek and other elemental sets, carry no contested fact at all; only the wu xing five do, and all five carry the same warning against the English name that groups them with the Greek four. Grouped here with Frequencies, Gemstone, Seven Ray, Plant, Animals and Totems and Colors above.

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• WoodWood, one of five wu xing phases carrying the identical debated mistranslation note word for word
• FireFire, one of five wu xing phases carrying the identical debated mistranslation note word for word
• EarthEarth, one of five wu xing phases carrying the identical debated mistranslation note word for word
• MetalMetal, one of five wu xing phases carrying the identical debated mistranslation note word for word
• WaterWater, one of five wu xing phases carrying the identical debated mistranslation note word for word