Single Idea 23184

[catalogued under 15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / b. Purpose of mind]

Full Idea

The intellect and the senses are above all a simplifying apparatus.

Gist of Idea

The mind is a simplifying apparatus

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 34[046])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.11


A Reaction

Very plausible, and not an idea I have met elsewhere. There's a PhD here for someone. It fits with my view as universals in language (which is most of language), which capture diverse things by ironing out their differences.