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4532 | We can have two opposite sensations, like hard and soft, at the same time [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: There is a coarse sensualistic prejudice that sensations teach us truths about things - that I cannot say at the same time that a thing is hard and soft. To say that I cannot have two opposite sensations at the same time is quite coarse and false. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §516) | |
A reaction: I am struggling to think of examples. I might experience something as cool, but judge it to be warm (because my hand is hot). I don't think I know what experience he is referring to. Interesting claim, though. |