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Nishida Kitaro quotes on experience

3 verified English passages where Nishida Kitaro’ s thought meets questions of experience.

Nishida Kitaro on experience

Nishida Kitaro (1870–1945) approaches experience within Kyoto School. Pure experience precedes subject–object split; later logic of basho (place) and absolute nothingness reframe self and world. Nishida seeks a philosophy adequate to both modern science and East Asian insight. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets experience most directly—useful for searches such as “nishida kitaro quotes on experience.”

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  1. Pure experience is the state of experience just as it is, without the slightest addition of deliberative discrimination.
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    An Inquiry into the Good
  2. To experience means to know facts just as they are.
    Q0309
    An Inquiry into the Good
  3. Pure experience is identical with direct experience.