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Full Idea
It is sufficient if we [thinkers] come to agree about a totality of methodological presuppositions - about 'provisional truths' that we want to use as a guideline for our work.
Gist of Idea
Thinkers might agree some provisional truths, as methodological assumptions
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 25[449])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1884-85 (v 15)', ed/tr. Loeb,P.S./Tinsley,D.F. [Stanford 2022], p.118
A Reaction
Descartes attempted this. Maybe Frege is another attempt. Husserl, perhaps? Parmenides? Hume? Lewis? It is hard to imagine Nietzsche joining in a professional consensus! He has just rejected systems.