[MD] Nietzsche on truth

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Ah yes, but that is only truth when it is converted into an object.  Is what our friend N says true?

In Quality, truth is not some object.  If you want to stick with SOM, be my guest.  I thought this was a metaphysics of Quality.  As such I do not find N to be relevant.  There are other forums for that.


Mark

On Oct 8, 2012, at 4:30 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

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>     "What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions- they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins.
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>     "We still do not yet know where the drive for truth comes from. For so far we have heard only of the duty which society imposes in order to exist: to be truthful means to employ the usual metaphors. Thus, to express it morally, this is the duty to lie according to a fixed convention, to lie with the herd and in a manner binding upon everyone..."
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> http://www.davemckay.co.uk/philosophy/nietzsche/nietzsche.php?name=nietzsche.1873.ontruthandliesinanonmoralsense 
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