Single Idea 4417

[catalogued under 2. Reason / D. Definition / 3. Types of Definition]

Full Idea

Only that which has no history is definable.

Gist of Idea

Only that which has no history is definable

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (On the Genealogy of Morals [1887], II.§13)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'On the Genealogy of Morals/ Ecce Homo', ed/tr. Kaufmann,Walter [Vintage 1969], p.80


A Reaction

Too subtle to evaluate! It sounds as if it could be right, that some things are definable, but when the accretions of human history are interwoven into an identity, we can forget it.