PHI 3377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nominalism, Essentialism
30 Nov 2013
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Sept. 18, 2013: anti-realist account of language and thought. Language for nietzsche is our means of access to the world, shapes how we think about the world, world is filtered through language, world is shaped by our faculties, things do not really appear as they are. The thing in itself is something incomprehensible to us. All language is metaphorical all language is a kind of translation/carrying across of reality. Concepts of metaphors image produced in your mind we only think our words correspond to things are they actually are. Nominalist account of concepts vs platonic theory (forms) essentialist. The reason we group things the way we do is because of our perspective every living being sees the world in accordance with its own interests. A flux of individual perceptions the dome of concepts - unstable. Just because some process falsifies reality, doesn"t mean it"s bad. The construction of scientific knowledge via the concept of knowledge.
