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Single Idea 23205
[filed under theme 19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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Full Idea
A thought in the shape in which it comes is an ambiguous sign that needs interpretation, more precisely, needs an arbitrary narrowing-down and limitation, until it finally becomes unambiguous.
Gist of Idea
Thought starts as ambiguity, in need of interpretation and narrowing
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 38[01])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.155
A Reaction
This is exactly my view of propositions, as mental events. Introspect your thinking process. Track the progress from the first glimmer of a thought to its formulation in a finished sentence. Language, unlike propositions, can be ambiguous.
Related Idea
Idea 9133
Propositions are what settle problems of ambiguity in sentences [Sorensen]
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from 'Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86'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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23196
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Logic is a fiction, which invents the view that one thought causes another
[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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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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