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Often appears with: species, variation, and descent · reason and the intellect · plato · natural philosophy · natural law and higher law · darwinism
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“I think,” assumes that I COMPARE my state at the present moment with other states of myself which I know, in order to determine what it is; on account of this retrospective connection with further 'knowledge,' it has, at any rate, no immediate certainty for me.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil · insight
Nietzsche argues that sensory-based “natural philosophy” explains only what can be seen and felt, not the world itself, contrasting popular sensualism and the Platonic aristocratic resistance to sense evidence.
to me that this is a complete REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM, if the conception CAUSA SUI is something fundamentally absurd. Consequently, the external world is NOT the work of our organs--? 16. There are still harmless self-observers who believe that there are "immediate certainties"; for instance, "I think," or as the superstition of Schopenhauer puts it, "I will"; as though cognition here got hold of its object purely and …