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Single Idea 20119

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception]

Full Idea

The emergence of our sense impressions into our consciousness, the ability to fix them and, as it were, exhibit them externally, increased proportionally with the need to communicate them to others by means of signs.

Gist of Idea

We became increasingly conscious of our sense impressions in order to communicate them

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay (Joyful) Science [1882], §354)

A Reaction

He says in the same section that such ideas (plus his thoughts on consciousness) are the essence of his 'Perspectivism'. In effect, knowledge is not an individual activity, but a team game

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Gay Science', ed/tr. Kaufmann,Walter [Vintage 1974], p.299