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4486 | The extreme view is there are only perspectives, no true beliefs, because there is no true world [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: The most extreme form of nihilism would be the view that every belief, every considering-something-true, is necessarily false because there is simply no true world. Thus: a perspectival appearance, whose origin lies in us. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §015) | |
A reaction: The idea that 'there is no true world' is incomprehensible to me. But note that here Nietzsche labels this an 'extreme' view, which he may not be asserting. He likes to flirt with danger. |