Soku-hi () 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.G. S. Axtell. Comparative Dialectics: Nishida Kitaro's Logic of Place and Western Dialectical Thought, Philosophy East and West. Vol. 41, No. 2 (April 1991). pp. 163-184. University of Hawaii Press, Hawaii, USA.
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