Soku hi

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Soku-hi (Japanese: 即非) means "is and is not". The term is primarily used by the representatives of the Kyoto School of Eastern philosophy.

The logic of soku-hi or "is and is not" represents a balanced logic of symbolization reflecting sensitivity to the mutual determination of universality and particularity in nature, and a corresponding emphasis on nonattachment to linguistic predicates and subjects as representations of the real.^[1]

See also[]

• Emptiness, a concept in Kyoto School philosophy
• Nishida Kitaro

Notes[]

References and external links[]

• Logic of soku-hi by D.T. Suzuki (poetry)
• Rude awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto school, & the question of nationalism, by James W. Heisig & John C. Maraldo. p. 24.
• 'The Kyoto School' on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy