知ち行こう合ごう一いつ

expression

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.

• 知ち行こう合ごう一いつの考かんがえ方かたは、陽よう明めい学がくの中ちゅう心しん的てきな教おしえの一ひとつです。

  The idea of the unity of knowledge and action is one of the central teachings of Yangmingism.

• 彼かれは知ち行こう合ごう一いつを実じっ践せんし、学まなんだことをすぐに行こう動どうに移うつした。

  He practiced the unity of knowledge and action, immediately putting what he learned into action.