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Norwood Russell Hanson
Norwood Russell Hanson

Norwood Russell Hanson (1924-1967) was an American philosopher known for his work in the philosophy of science and epistemology. His research had a profound impact on understanding the nature of scientific practice and the social and cultural context of scientific knowledge. more

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“Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.”

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Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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“We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.”

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Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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“Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.”

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Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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“Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.”

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Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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