 This argument, like the one rejected in Fāng biàn xīn lùn, is deductively valid. The example statement also comprises two sentences: the first, however, affirms a universal proposition, If a thing is eternal, (then) it does not arise due to an effort, and the second states an instance of the universal proposition, which is distinct from the subject of the argument. The proposition and reason statements, together with the first sentence of the example statement, comprise a deductively valid argument.