Ko wu
Ko wu
Investigation of things. (Confucianism.)
Investigation of the Reason (li) of things and affairs to the utmost. (Chu Hsi, 1130-1200.)
“Rectification” of things and affairs by the extension of one’s intuitive knowledge so that what is not correct in things, and therefore evil, may be corrected and made good. (Wang Yang-ming, 1473-1529.)
— W.T.C.