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Ideas for 'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'Theories of Everything' and 'Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86'

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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique
The 'I' does not think; it is a construction of thinking, like other useful abstractions [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: I do not grant to the metaphysicians that the 'I' is what thinks: on the contrary I take the I itself as a construction thinking, of the same rank as 'material',' thing', 'substance', 'purpose', 'number': therefore only as a regulative fiction.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 35[35])
     A reaction: Ah. I have always defended the Self, the thing that is in charge when the mind is directed to something. I suddenly see that this is compatible with the Self not being the thinker! It is just the willer, and the controller of the searchlight. Self = will?
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism
Appearance is the sole reality of things, to which all predicates refer [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: Appearance as I understand it is the actual and single reality of things - that which first merits all existing predicates.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 40[53])
     A reaction: This is the view espoused by John Stuart Mill (a fact which would shock Nietzsche!). Elsewhere he laughs at the concept of the thing-in-itself as a fiction.