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7161 | The essence of a thing is only an opinion about the 'thing' [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: The essence of a thing is only an opinion about the 'thing'. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 02[150]) | |
A reaction: Nietzsche seems sympathetic to essentialism about natural laws (based on 'power'), but this is the classic rejection of Aristotelian essences, because they are unknowable or unprovable. Personally I think scientists are revealing essences. |