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The subject of thinking is inferred by grammatical habit: thinking is an activity, every activity has someone active, consequently

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One infers here according to the grammatical habit "thinking is an activity, to every activity belongs someone who is active, consequently –".

JGB 17: »Man schliesst hier nach der grammatischen Gewohnheit "Denken ist eine Thätigkeit, zu jeder Thätigkeit gehört Einer, der thätig ist, folglich -"«. Nietzsche breaks the inference off at »folglich«; the map does not complete it for him. The same scheme is the atomist's, »zu der "Kraft", die wirkt, noch jenes Klümpchen Materie«, in the next sentence; and GD gives it as the metaphysics of language that »sieht überall Thäter und Thun« (c-nietzsche-will-as-cause-the-great-error).

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