Single Idea 4538

[catalogued under 3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth]

Full Idea

An isolated judgement is never 'true', never knowledge; only in connection and relation of many judgements is there any surety.

Gist of Idea

Judgements can't be true and known in isolation; the only surety is in connections and relations

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §530)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.287


A Reaction

It actually seems impossible to state an isolated judgement in language without having a mass of presuppositions and beliefs to support it. I don't think the full holistic thesis about language follows, however.