Koto(Koto) - Koto

Japanese: こと(事) - こと

"Koto" is a distinctively Japanese concept of existence that is opposed to "mono." The English words "event" and "matter," the German words "Sache" and "Sachverhalt," and the French words "chose" and "fait" are sometimes translated as "koto," but the original ideas are different from these. There are some academic concepts similar to "koto," such as "objektiv," which was introduced as an academic concept by Meinong of the Graz School in his theory of higher objects, as well as concepts in the late Neo-Kantian school, the early phenomenological school, and the logical analysis school, but even these are quite far removed from "koto."

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

〈こと〉は〈もの〉と対立する優れて日本的な存在概念である。英語のevent,matter，ドイツ語のSache,Sachverhalt，フランス語のchose,faitなどを時によっては〈事〉と訳す場合もあるが，元来の発想はそれらとは異質である。グラーツ学派のマイノングが，高次対象論において学術的概念として導入した〈objektiv〉をはじめ，後期新カント学派，初期現象学派，論理分析学派などの学術的概念のなかには〈こと〉に類するものがないわけではないが，それらとて〈こと〉とはかなりのへだたりがある。

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