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    Challenges→Nishida's careful phrasing in 1945 was motivated by political self-protection

    Nishida's late writings consistently deploy careful, qualified phrasing as a deliberate philosophical method rooted in his logic of 'absolute contradictory self-identity'.

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    • 1.Nishida's absolute contradictory self-identity requires linguistic indirection since direct statements cannot capture simultaneous opposites.
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    • 2.His late works extensively use qualifiers like 'basho' and 'place' to express non-dualistic concepts that resist univocal terminology.
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    • 3.Careful phrasing allows readers to experience conceptual tension rather than resolve it prematurely, mirroring the logic itself.
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    • 1.Qualified phrasing may reflect translation difficulties and historical context rather than deliberate method rooted in logical doctrine.
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    • 2.The claim conflates textual obscurity with philosophical intentionality without sufficient evidence of Nishida's metacognitive design.
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