Single Idea 23189

[catalogued under 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts]

Full Idea

Concepts are more or less definite groups of sensations that arrive together.

Gist of Idea

Concepts are rough groups of simultaneous sensations

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 34[086])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.23


A Reaction

I like this because I favour accounts of concepts which root them in experience, and largely growing unthinking out of communcal experience. Nietzsche is very empirical here. Hume would probably agree.