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Scientific Fictionalism And The Problem Of Inconsistency In Nietzsche, Justin Remhof
Scientific Fictionalism And The Problem Of Inconsistency In Nietzsche, Justin Remhof
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In this article, I begin to develop Nietzsche’s scientific fictionalism in order to make headway toward resolving a central interpretive issue in his epistemology. For Nietzsche knowledge claims are falsifications. Presumably, this is a result of his puzzling view that truths are somehow false. I argue that Nietzsche thinks knowledge claims are falsifications because he embraces a scientific fictionalist view according to which inexact representations, which are false, can also be accurate, or true, and that this position is not inconsistent.