  In attempting to explain the formation and working of the historical world, Nishida coined the term “action-oriented intuition” or “enactive intuition” (kōi-teki chokkan). His texts suggest a reciprocity between action and intuition, so that we could also speak of “intuition-oriented action” or simply of “action-intuition.”  Here again Nishida sought to discover the topos or common space that underlies a distinction, this time between intuition or seeing as a more or less passive reception of the world and its objects, and action as the human-engendered production of the world. Hence, this is another case of his “self-identity of contradictories.” The common space is the enactive or performative intuition exemplified by artistic creation.