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Single Idea 23195
[filed under theme 26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature
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Full Idea
The alleged 'laws of nature' are formulas for power relationships…
Gist of Idea
Laws of nature are actually formulas of power relations
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 34[247])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.73
A Reaction
Love it. This is precisely the powers ontology of modern philosophy of science. His Will to Power is not often recognised as closely related to this view.
Related Idea
Idea 23185
In chemistry every substance pushes, and thus creates new substances [Nietzsche]
The
31 ideas
from 'Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86'
23208
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Caesar and Napoleon point to the future, when they pursue their task regardless of human sacrifice
[Nietzsche]
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23209
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Each of our personal drives has its own perspective
[Nietzsche]
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23210
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That all events are necessary does not mean they are compelled
[Nietzsche]
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23211
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Events are just interpretations of groups of appearances
[Nietzsche]
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23212
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A text has many interpretations, but no 'correct' one
[Nietzsche]
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23213
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The greatest drive of life is to discharge strength, rather than preservation
[Nietzsche]
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23214
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For the strongest people, nihilism gives you wings!
[Nietzsche]
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23183
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Different abilities are needed for living in an incomplete and undogmatic system
[Nietzsche]
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23184
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The mind is a simplifying apparatus
[Nietzsche]
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23186
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Numbers enable us to manage the world - to the limits of counting
[Nietzsche]
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23187
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Whatever their origin, concepts survive by being useful
[Nietzsche]
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23188
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Bad writers use shapeless floating splotches of concepts
[Nietzsche]
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23189
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Concepts are rough groups of simultaneous sensations
[Nietzsche]
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23190
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Consciousness is our awareness of our own mental life
[Nietzsche]
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23191
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Minds have an excluding drive to scare things off, and a selecting one to filter facts
[Nietzsche]
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23192
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Concepts don’t match one thing, but many things a little bit
[Nietzsche]
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23193
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Napoleon was very focused, and rightly ignored compassion
[Nietzsche]
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23194
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People feel united as a nation by one language, but then want a common ancestry and history
[Nietzsche]
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23195
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Laws of nature are actually formulas of power relations
[Nietzsche]
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23197
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Memory is essential, and is only possible by means of abbreviation signs
[Nietzsche]
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23196
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Logic is a fiction, which invents the view that one thought causes another
[Nietzsche]
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23185
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In chemistry every substance pushes, and thus creates new substances
[Nietzsche]
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23198
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Aesthetics can be more basic than morality, in our pleasure in certain patterns of experience
[Nietzsche]
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23199
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What is the search for truth if it isn't moral?
[Nietzsche]
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23200
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The controlling morality of aristocracy is the desire to resemble their ancestors
[Nietzsche]
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23202
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Like all philosophers, I love truth
[Nietzsche]
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23203
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The great question is approaching, of how to govern the earth as a whole
[Nietzsche]
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23204
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To be someone you need property, and wanting more is healthy
[Nietzsche]
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23205
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Thought starts as ambiguity, in need of interpretation and narrowing
[Nietzsche]
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23206
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Schematic minds think thoughts are truer if they slot into a scheme
[Nietzsche]
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23207
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Appearance is the sole reality of things, to which all predicates refer
[Nietzsche]
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