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Ideas for 'God and Human Attributes', 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics' and 'Dawn (Daybreak)'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 3. Value of Knowledge

20258	Most people treat knowledge as a private possession [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: Most people take a thing they know under their protection, as if knowing it turned it into their possession.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 285)
	A reaction: A typically wicked and subtle remark. This presumably makes knowledge part of the will to power, with which Francis Bacon would presumably agree.

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

21958	Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]
	Full Idea: Appearances in general are nothing outside our representations, which is just what we mean by transcendental ideality.
	From: A.W. Moore (The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics [2012], B535/A507)