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Ideas for 'The Nature of Things', 'On the Ultimate Origination of Things' and 'The Will to Power (notebooks)'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming

20359

The nature of being, of things, is much easier to understand than is becoming [Nietzsche]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

7696	Leibniz first asked 'why is there something rather than nothing?' [Leibniz, by Jacquette]

19341

There must be a straining towards existence in the essence of all possible things [Leibniz]

19428

Because something does exist, there must be a drive in possible things towards existence [Leibniz]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / e. Facts rejected

4525	There are no facts in themselves, only interpretations [Nietzsche]

4543	There are no 'facts-in-themselves', since a sense must be projected into them to make them 'facts' [Nietzsche]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

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Extreme nominalists say all classification is arbitrary convention [Quinton]

4484	Nihilism results from valuing the world by the 'categories of reason', because that is fiction [Nietzsche]