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4487 | A note for asses: What convinces is not necessarily true - it is merely convincing [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: What convinces is not necessarily true - it is merely convincing (a note for asses). | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §017) | |
A reaction: I hope I am not such an ass that I need Nietzsche to explain this, as I have always thought it true. Many good modern epistemologists seem to me guilty of this error, though. Pragmatists, riff-raff like that… |