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The state expressed in "I think" has for me at any rate no immediate certainty

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My momentary state, which "I think" presupposes comparing with other states I know in myself, has for me at any rate no immediate certainty.

JGB 16: »wegen dieser Rückbeziehung auf anderweitiges Wissen hat er für mich jedenfalls keine unmittelbare Gewissheit«. The »er« is »meinen augenblicklichen Zustand« of the clause before (»um so festzusetzen, was er ist«), not »jenes ich denke«, which is neuter; the statement names the state and says which state it is. The »wegen« draws the claim from the comparison the sentence before states, and the map formalizes the step as a-nietzsche-ich-denke-has-no-immediate-certainty; the ground, the back-reference, is a premise of the argument and not part of this claim. »jedenfalls« is kept in the statement: the sentence says "at any rate for me", in the philosopher's mouth, not for the people, whose belief the sentence after returns to (the span ends before it).

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