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Even "it thinks" does too much: the "it" already contains an interpretation of the process

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In the end even with this "it thinks" too much has already been done: even this "it" contains an interpretation of the process and does not belong to the process itself.

JGB 17: »Zuletzt ist schon mit diesem "es denkt" zu viel gethan: schon dies "es" enthält eine Auslegung des Vorgangs und gehört nicht zum Vorgange selbst.« The sentence before had already said that the identity of the »es« with »jenes alte berühmte "Ich"« is »nur eine Annahme, eine Behauptung, vor Allem keine "unmittelbare Gewissheit"«, which is the claim of JGB 16 again (c-nietzsche-ich-denke-has-no-immediate-certainty); how the »es« is reached is c-nietzsche-subject-inferred-by-grammatical-habit.

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