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Single Idea 24349

[catalogued under 13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / b. Pro-coherentism]

Full Idea

A single judgment is never 'true', never cognition, surety first comes about in coherency, in the relationship of many judgments.

Gist of Idea

Single judgements are never 'true', because that needs coherent support

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Fragments from 1886-87 (v 17) [1887], 7[04])

A Reaction

[Is this Nietzsche's view, or Kant's?] If a single judgment were surrounded by coherent support, then we would judge the single judgment to be true. I hope this is Nietzsche supporting coherentism. It would fit his perspectivalism.

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1886-87 (v 17)', ed/tr. Leiner, George H. [Stanford 2025], p.73