While the above two teachings advocate only Kuri, it advocates the three axioms of Ku, Ke (or difference, a though that things exits temporally) and Chu (or totality) but as the three axioms are not united and separated, it is called 'Kakureki-no-sandai' (three separate axioms) and it advocates only discrimination, rather than harmonization, concerning all things.
前の二教が空理のみを説くのに対し、空・仮・中の三諦を説くが、三諦は互いに融合せず、各々が隔たるので「隔歴の三諦」といい、一切の事物について差別のみが説かれて、融和を説いていない。