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Seduction of Grammar

Grammar is everywhere. Everyday, without even thinking about it, we put words and phrases together to form thoughts and ideas in order to hold conversations, write letters, do homework, etc. Not once in this communication cycle do we think more or less about grammar. Friedrich Nietzsche, however, analyzed language and grammar and theorized on the seduction of grammar. During the first two sections of Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche refers to the seduction of grammar in terms of simplifying reality and treating ideas as actual objects.

For Nietzsche, seduction of grammar is faith in the power of words and in objective truth. A play on words is mendacity on the part of grammar, or a bold realization of facts. Nietzsche is not saying, however, that we should believe false judgments. False judgments, although false, may be fundamental and useful, "The falseness of an opinion is not for us any obj


"I believe". Speaking in this manner is deceptive and your ideas, thoughts, and words lose their significance and meaning. Nietzsche puts it in perspective this way:

ection to it; it is here, perhaps, that our new language sounds most strangely." (Section 1; Part 4) Nietzsche is trying to get us to think about the worthiness and "life-furthering, life-preserving" of opinions. We are naturally inclined to believe that the most deceitful and false opinions are the most "indispensable to us". Without some kind of realization of fictional reasoning and without a corresponding knowledge of reality and imagination "man could not live". "To recognize untruth as a condition of life", is a challenge of what is commonplace and traditional. (Section 1; Part 4)

When talking of our ideas and thoughts, we think of them as actual things or objects. Nietzsche calls this reification. These new "things" are concepts of our ow

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