Single Idea 4487

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty]

Full Idea

What convinces is not necessarily true - it is merely convincing (a note for asses).

Gist of Idea

A note for asses: What convinces is not necessarily true - it is merely convincing

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §017)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.15


A Reaction

I hope I am not such an ass that I need Nietzsche to explain this, as I have always thought it true. Many good modern epistemologists seem to me guilty of this error, though. Pragmatists, riff-raff like that…