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Ideas for 'On Propositions: What they are,and Meaning', 'Autobiography' and 'Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being

24112	To think about being we must have an opinion about what it is [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: We are in the process of figuring out the being of things: consequently we must already have an opinion as to what being is. This can be an error! E.g., I.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82 [1882], 9[41])
	A reaction: The point of 'I' is that we unquestioningly think the self is a given aspect of being, as in Descartes.