If the external world were the work of our organs, our body, as a piece of it, would be the work of our organs
If the external world were the work of our organs, then our body, as a piece of this external world, would be the work of our organs.
Aber dann wäre ja unser Leib, als ein Stück dieser Aussenwelt, das Werk unsrer Organe!
But then our body, as a piece of this external world, would be the work of our organs!
The second sentence of the passage, the first step of the reductio of JGB 15. »Dann« takes up the supposition of the sentence before, »die Aussenwelt wäre das Werk unsrer Organe«, which Nietzsche puts in the mouth of unnamed others (»Andere sagen gar«); the statement writes the supposition out as the antecedent. The ground of the step is in the sentence, »als ein Stück dieser Aussenwelt«. The first premise of a-nietzsche-external-world-not-work-of-organs.
Supports
- a-nietzsche-external-world-not-work-of-organsSupposing the concept causa sui absurd, the external world is not the work of our organs, because otherwise our body and then our organs themselves would be the work of our organs