unity of knowledge and action; awareness comes only through practice
A Neo-Confucian concept, especially associated with Wang Yangming, asserting that true knowledge is inseparable from action; one cannot claim to know something without acting upon it.
The idea of the unity of knowledge and action is one of the central teachings of Yangmingism.
He practiced the unity of knowledge and action, immediately putting what he learned into action.
The school of Neo-Confucianism founded by Wang Yangming, which emphasizes 知行合一 as a core principle.
From Chinese 知行合一 (zhīxíng héyī), a key concept in the philosophy of Wang Yangming (陽明学). The term is composed of 知 (knowledge), 行 (action), 合 (unite), and 一 (one).