Professor David Nivison's presidential address, “Two Roots Or One?”, delivered before the Fifty‐fourth Annual Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association is a very penetrating paper on Mencius' moral philosophy. He has also made some very interesting contrasts between Mencius' view and those of Wang Yang‐ming and Tai Chen. What I would like to point out here is that Wang's position is much more similar to Mencius' than Nivison thought. In sum, I would like to point out that, contrary to what Nivison seems to suggest, Wang is not a strict internalist. A strict internalist is one who maintains that the recognition of obligation is motivationenoughto act acco