Nietzsche Argument Essay

After studying Logic, I now believe that Nietzsche is wrong in saying human reasoning is not valid. I believe this because after reading through Nietzsche’s argument I see some fallacies that make Nietzsche’s argument less valid. I also see that Nietzsche is saying that human reasoning must not be valid because we cannot understand our own concepts, such as leaves or honesty. In this paper, I will be proving that Nietzsche is incorrect in saying that human reasoning is not valid. In the beginning of Nietzsche’s argument Nietzsche uses the fallacy of Attacking the Man (ad hominem). He uses this when he says, “One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy, flighty, how aimless and arbitrary,

Nietzsche says that when we talk about leaves we say “leaf” but no leaf is the same as another leaf and leaves do not follow an original form but instead are all different. We are using one word to describe many different things. I say to him that we are using this word to generalize the leaves instead of calling an individual leaf a different word. As we continue with the concept of leaves the words get more specific through types of leaves. We are not saying that there is an original form that all the other leaves got wrong and therefore leaf is incorrect we are using it so that we can describe leaf as a general idea using their similarities. After talking about leaves, though, Nietzsche talks about the concept of honesty and how we use a vague idea to convey someone who is not lying at that moment or lies on rare occasion. I answer him saying honesty is understood by humans in general as a person that is telling the truth most of the time and makes sure if they are lying it is on something that isn’t a grave matter. This is because humans are imperfect so they are unable to be perfectly honest therefore making honesty somewhat vague but known well within society. This is all explained well in the first act of the intellect, simple apprehension. In simple apprehension, we understand that we can use a broader statement to explain a general idea such as saying genus which is a broader classification of animal