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Full Idea
The subject alone is demonstrable: hypothesis - that there are only subjects - that 'object' is only a kind of effect of subject upon subject...a mode of the subject.
Gist of Idea
Maybe there are only subjects, and 'objects' result from relations between subjects
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 09[106])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.161
A Reaction
This is an ultimate implication of 'perspectivism'. Elsewhere, though, (Idea 7183) he challenges the ontological status of 'subjects', suggesting that even they are purely fictional. Nietzsche wanted to relativism everything, but kept clutching lifebelts.
Related Idea
Idea 7183 'Subjectivity' is an interpretation, since subjects (and interpreters) are fictions [Nietzsche]