- [Knowledge that can only be applied if it is connected to the root (of a tooth, hair, etc.), which is experience.
https://www.slideshare.net/nishio/2017-79797297
- Tokyo Metropolitan University Special Lecture on Information and Communication 2017
- I don’t think this is the first time this has come up.
A more detailed parable - The Parable of the Floating Grass and the Trees
- rootless grass
- Knowledge of Rootless Grass
- rootless person
- greater duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza) It is not knowledge that can be applied unless it is connected to experience.
2023/8/15
- It was titled “Rootless,” but I always end up referring to it in “Rootless Knowledge,” so I titled it that.
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