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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'The Will to Power (notebooks)' and 'Treatise 2: Virtue or Moral Good'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth
10913 Truth is a matter of asserting correct combinations and separations [Aristotle]
10916 Truth is either intuiting a way of being, or a putting together [Aristotle]
10914 Simple and essential truth seems to be given, with further truth arising in thinking [Aristotle]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth
20357 Truth was given value by morality, but eventually turned against its own source [Nietzsche]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 4. Uses of Truth
4534 'Truth' is the will to be master over the multiplicity of sensations [Nietzsche]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 6. Verisimilitude
575 If one error is worse than another, it must be because it is further from the truth [Aristotle]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 7. Falsehood
4548 Only because there is thought is there untruth [Nietzsche]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth
5652 True beliefs are those which augment one's power [Nietzsche, by Scruton]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 9. Rejecting Truth
4508 The truth is what gives us the minimum of spiritual effort, and avoids the exhaustion of lying [Nietzsche]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 1. For Truthmakers
15775 Truth-thinking does not make it so; it being so is what makes it true [Aristotle]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths
10915 The truth or falsity of a belief will be in terms of something that is always this way not that [Aristotle]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
586 Falsity says that which is isn't, and that which isn't is; truth says that which is is, and that which isn't isn't [Aristotle]
19165 Aristotle's truth formulation concerns referring parts of sentences, not sentences as wholes [Aristotle, by Davidson]
3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth
4538 Judgements can't be true and known in isolation; the only surety is in connections and relations [Nietzsche]