Nishida was fond of calling this type of totality, which holds together differences without sublating them into a higher unity, a "self-identity of contradictories".
I wouldn't go so far as to call the stories "linked," but a few of them share characters and/or locales, and certain themes recur throughout, so there's a feeling of higher unity, a wholeness — at any rate, there's supposed to be.
I wouldn't go so far as to call the stories "linked," but a few of them share characters and/or locales, and certain themes recur throughout, so there's a feeling of higher unity, a wholeness at any rate, there's supposed to be.
Pure experience launches the dynamic process of reality that differentiates into subjective and objective phenomena on their way to a higher unity, and the recapture of our unitary foundation is what Nishida means by the Good.
Already during the late 1920s he had criticized the dissolute nature of the German university system, where specialization and the ideology of academic freedom precluded the attainment of a higher unity.
The exemplary person, inspired by the harmony and creativity of the cosmos, must emulate that pattern by aiming to realize the highest ideal of "unity of man and heaven" (tianrenheyi) through ceaseless self-exertion.
In a decision-making situation, the aim of each DM is to achieve the highest membership value (unity) of the associated fuzzy goal in order to obtain the absolute satisfactory solution.
When the ratio was equal to or higher than unity, all of the HPV-16 genome was considered to be in the episomal form.
The self, he contended, is an identifiable organization within each individual and accounts for the unity of personality, higher motives, and continuity of personal memories.
But the unity desired in works of art is much greater than this: it is more like the unity of the higher organisms in which every part functions not independently of the others but interdependently with them, and it is this interdependency of the parts that constitutes an organic unity.
