Single Idea 23196

[catalogued under 5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic]

Full Idea

The model of a complete fiction is logic. Here a thinking is made up where a thought is posited as the cause of another thought.

Gist of Idea

Logic is a fiction, which invents the view that one thought causes another

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 34[249])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.73


A Reaction

He could almost be referring to Frege's Third Realm. Most hard core analytic philosophers seem to think that propositions have tight logical relationships which are nothing to do with the people who think them.