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PREMIUM-Episode 61: Nietzsche on Truth and Skepticism

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Concepts Falsify the World, Right?

Nica says concepts are simply constructed. Falsified because we're constructing these cognitions. We take ourselves not to be constructing anything at all, where we think that our representations of reality are capable of carving the world at its joints. And nica knows enough and he knows enough about science, and the science of vision and perception in the nineteenth century to know that even perception, to say nothing of cognition, is an incredibly active process. D, this is a really weird situation. But if there's anything positive here, i think there's, again, in this long account of the way concepts falsify the world right? There seems to be some sort of positive account of the kind

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