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Full Idea
The entire cognitive mechanism is a mechanism of abstraction and simplification - not aimed at knowing, but taking control of things.
Gist of Idea
Mind is a mechanism of abstraction and simplification, aimed at control
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 26[061])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1884-85 (v 15)', ed/tr. Loeb,P.S./Tinsley,D.F. [Stanford 2022], p.148
A Reaction
It is my view that we can explain our metaphysics in this way, though I am more realist than Nietzsche, because I think the world has created these capacities within us, so they fit the world. To control, you must know.