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Ideas for 'Unconscious Cerebral Initiative', 'The Search After Truth' and 'The Will to Power (notebooks)'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes
16669 Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche]
     Full Idea: It is absolutely necessary that everything in the world be either a being or a mode [manière] of a being.
     From: Nicolas Malebranche (The Search After Truth [1675], III.2.8.ii), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 13.4
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties
4546 We realise that properties are sensations of the feeling subject, not part of the thing [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: There comes a point where one realises that what one calls a property of a thing is a sensation of the feeling subject; at this point the property ceases to belong to the thing.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §562)
     A reaction: I don't believe this. Has Nietzsche no theory about WHY we have one sensation rather than another? I prefer to distinguish primary from secondary qualities.