the integrity of natural objects and processes

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 the distinguishing aspects. this awakens the idea that, in addition to the leaves, there exists in nature the “leaf”: the original model according to which all the leaves were perhaps woven, sketched, measured, colored, curled, and painted, but by incompetent hands, so that no specimen has turned out to be a correct, trustworthy, and faithful likeness of the original model.

every word immediately becomes a concept, insofar as it is not intended to serve as a reminder of the unique and wholly individualized original experience to which it owes its birth, but must at the same time fit innumerable, more or less similar cases which means, strictly speaking, never equal in other words, a lot of unequal cases.

über wahrheit und lüge im außermoralischen sinn - 1873

friedrich nietzsche (1844-1900)

only in inidividuality there is life; and all inidividuality rests on a dark ground, which, however, must also be the ground of cognition.

philosophische untersuchungen über das wesen der menschlichen freiheit - 1809

friedrich von schelling (1775-1854)

ruurd van der noord

∴ NEVER EQUAL ∴

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