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Sense, philosophy: sense is a property of statements which makes the determination of the truth value (true or false) possible, although not guaranteed. Even false statements make sense; otherwise their falsehood could not be established. What is meaningless, therefore, is what cannot be negated. Statements about the future allow an assessment of probabilities if they are sensible without having a truth value. Wishes and commands are sensible and understandable if they can be reformulated into negative statements. See also understanding, negation, truth values, verification, determination, indeterminacy, probability, Fregean sense.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Friedrich Nietzsche on Sense - Dictionary of Arguments

Ries II 84
Sense/Nietzsche: After the decay of the ascetic ideal, the question remains: why suffering? No answer. But suffering remains.
>Suffering/Nietzsche
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Danto III 229
Sense/Life/Nietzsche/Danto: According to Hobbes, there was no sign of civilization in the natural state and the story of bare life would have to be a monotonous repetition of fights and rapes: If there was a history itself, then it is thanks to religion, and according to Nietzsche it is also due to the spirit, which came from the powerless (Danto: the priests) into them.(1)
Sense/Life/Nietzsche/Danto: From here, the meaning of religion can only be properly estimated: The human being, the animal human being, has so far had no sense. His existence on earth had no purpose; he did not know how to justify himself, to explain, to affirm.(2)
Danto III 230
Consciousness/Nietzsche/Danto: According to Nietzsche, consciousness came into focus as an excess organ only late and, for the time being, not very effective. As we remain animals at the same time, we suffer from the gap between what we are and what we hope for.
Suffering/Religion: nonetheless: if there should be any form of suffering, then none without sense and purpose. Religions give sense and meaning to the fact of suffering, even if they themselves cause suffering. According to Nietzsche, however, some sense (...) is better than no sense at all.(3)
>World/Nietzsche, >Reality/Nietzsche.

1. F. Nietzsche Jenseits von Gut und Böse, VI. 2, p. 281.
2. Ibid. p. 429
3. Ibid.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Nie I
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe Berlin 2009

Nie V
F. Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil 2014

Ries II
Wiebrecht Ries
Nietzsche zur Einführung Hamburg 1990

Danto I
A. C. Danto
Connections to the World - The Basic Concepts of Philosophy, New York 1989
German Edition:
Wege zur Welt München 1999

Danto III
Arthur C. Danto
Nietzsche as Philosopher: An Original Study, New York 1965
German Edition:
Nietzsche als Philosoph München 1998

Danto VII
A. C. Danto
The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (Columbia Classics in Philosophy) New York 2005


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