但係，宋明儒學入面嘅另一個分支陸王心學就對“致知”提出咗唔同嘅睇法，喺宋代嗰陣，陸九淵曾經認為朱熹對“格物致知”嘅理解方法令到個系統“支離破碎”。而明朝嗰陣，王陽明就喺《大學問》寫咗呢一番說話：“『致知』雲者，非若後儒所謂充擴其知識之謂也，致吾心之良知焉耳。良知者，孟子所謂『是非之心，人皆有之』者也。是非之心，不待慮而知，不待學而能，是故謂之良知。”
However, another branch of Confucianism in the Song and Ming dynasties, Lu Wang Xinxue, put forward a different view of "Zhizhi", and in the Song Dynasty, Lu Jiuyuan once thought that Zhu Xi's understanding of "Gewu Zhizhi" made a system "fragmented". In the Ming Dynasty, Wang Yangming wrote this sentence in "University Question": Lin 'Zhizhi' Yun is not the so-called expansion of his knowledge by Later Confucianism, but also the conscience of my heart. Those who have a conscience are also those who Mencius called "the heart of right and wrong, and everyone is possible". The heart of right and wrong, knowing without worrying, and being able to learn without waiting, is the conscience that is called. ”