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    "title": "Twilight of the Idols",
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    "date": "written in 1888; published in 1889",
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    "learning": "To read Twilight of the Idols, name the attacked value, recover its target and period, then test a counter-perspective without turning provocation into dogma.",
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            "text": "3. — Und was für feine Werkzeuge der Beobachtung haben wir an unsren Sinnen! Diese Nase zum Beispiel, von der noch kein Philosoph mit Verehrung und Dankbarkeit gesprochen hat, ist sogar einstweilen das delikateste Instrument, das uns zu Gebote steht: es vermag noch Minimaldifferenzen der Bewegung zu constatiren, die selbst das Spektroskop nicht constatirt. Wir besitzen heute genau so weit Wissenschaft, als wir uns entschlossen haben, das Zeugniss der Sinne anzunehmen, — als wir sie noch schärfen, bewaffnen, zu Ende denken lernten. Der Rest ist Missgeburt und Noch-nicht-Wissenschaft: will sagen Metaphysik, Theologie, Psychologie, Erkenntnisstheorie. Oder Formal-Wissenschaft, Zeichenlehre: wie die Logik und jene angewandte Logik, die Mathematik. In ihnen kommt die Wirklichkeit gar nicht vor, nicht einmal als Problem; ebensowenig als die Frage, welchen Werth überhaupt eine solche Zeichen-Convention, wie die Logik ist, hat. —",
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            "text": "3. What subtle instruments of observation our senses are! The nose, for example, though no philosopher has praised it gratefully, remains our most delicate instrument, detecting minimal differences of motion beyond even the spectroscope. We possess science exactly insofar as we accept, sharpen, arm, and think sensory testimony through. The rest is deformity and not-yet-science: metaphysics, theology, psychology, epistemology; or formal science and sign theory, like logic and applied logic, mathematics. Reality does not occur there, even as a problem, nor does the value of such sign conventions as logic.",
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            "text": "3. Et quels fins instruments d’observation nous possédons dans nos sens ! Ce nez, par exemple, dont aucun philosophe n’a encore parlé avec respect et gratitude, est même, pour le moment, l’instrument le plus délicat dont nous disposions : il est capable de constater des différences minimales de mouvement que le spectroscope lui-même ne constate pas. Nous ne possédons aujourd’hui de science que dans l’exacte mesure où nous nous sommes décidés à accepter le témoignage des sens, où nous avons appris à les aiguiser davantage, à les armer, à les penser jusqu’au bout. Le reste est malformation et pas-encore-science : autrement dit métaphysique, théologie, psychologie, théorie de la connaissance. Ou science formelle, théorie des signes : comme la logique et cette logique appliquée qu’est la mathématique. En elles, la réalité n’apparaît pas du tout, pas même comme problème ; pas davantage que la question de savoir quelle valeur possède en général une convention de signes telle que la logique.",
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