 | Christine Battersby - Philosophy - 1998 - 252 pages
...experience (and hence individuation) gets lost (p. 83). Nietzsche continues: Every concept arises through the equation of unequal things. Just as it is certain...the leaves were perhaps woven, sketched, measured, coloured, curled, and painted - but by incompetent hands, so that no specimen has turned out to be... | |
 | Linda L. Williams - Philosophy - 2001 - 172 pages
...mental image that they may engender in the reader's mind is only a pale reflection of an actual leaf: Every concept arises from the equation of unequal...the "leaf: the original model according to which all leaves were perhaps woven, sketched, measured, colored, curled, and painted — but by incompetent... | |
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Every concept arises from the equation of unequal things. Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting... 