[lit-ideas] Re: Historians & Bush
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 20:09:33 -0600
Phil Enns asked as to my statement:
"... as Brother Nietzsche said: there are no facts, only
interpretations. "
Is that a fact?
Is what a fact? That Nietzsche in fact said that? Hmmmm. Interesting
question -- interesting because I've never read the "quote" myself -- only
read secondary sources that claim he said it repeatedly in his notebooks of
the 1880's. I purposefully didn't enclose it in quotation marks fearing
that someone like Phil would want me to cite chapter and verse -- as if that
would make it a fact. What makes a fact a fact? That the fact in question
is, in fact, the case of the world, or one of the cases of the world in any
event. Take Coca Cola, for instance. There's a fact for you. A world-wide
fact, in fact. But come to think of it, what is the fact of Coca Cola?
That it is? It what? A charter of incorporation? A mega global
corporation with all it's power and influence over governments? This
particular bottle of cola? A word? Depends on how you interpret it I
guess.
Or are you asking if it is a fact that there are no facts? Akin to the
proposition that the only thing we know for certain is that we can't know
anything for certain.
Or are you being sarcastic.
All depends on the interpretation, I guess.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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