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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. |
4544 | A thing has no properties if it has no effect on other 'things' [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: The properties of a thing are effects on other 'things'; if one removes other 'things', then a thing has no properties. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §557) | |
A reaction: This is a causal theory of properties. A counterexample is a potential property, like a bomb which never explodes. |
9880 | Nominalism assumes unmediated mental contact with objects [Dummett] |
Full Idea: The nominalist superstition is based ultimately on the myth of the unmediated presentation of genuine concrete objects to the mind. | |
From: Michael Dummett (Frege philosophy of mathematics [1991], Ch.18) | |
A reaction: Personally I am inclined to favour nominalism and a representative theory of perception, which acknowledges some 'mediation', but of a non-linguistic form. Any good theory here had better include animals, which seem to form concepts. |