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The world is my representation

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Everything that is there for cognition, hence the whole world, is only object in relation to the subject, intuition of the one intuiting, in one word, representation; and this holds of time and space themselves.

The first sentence of the work, »Die Welt ist meine Vorstellung«, and its restatement: »daß Alles, was für die Erkenntniß daist, also die ganze Welt, nur Objekt in Beziehung auf das Subjekt ist, Anschauung des Anschauenden, mit Einem Wort, Vorstellung« (§ 1, ZA I 28). Schopenhauer says that if any truth can be pronounced a priori it is this one, because it states the form of all possible experience that is more general than time, space and causality, which presuppose it, and that no truth is »eines Beweises weniger bedürftig, als diese« (same paragraph). The map therefore records it as a claim with no argument behind it. § 1 itself calls the consideration one-sided, to be completed by the second book (»Die Einseitigkeit dieser Betrachtung aber wird das folgende Buch ergänzen«, ZA I 29–30: the world is »durch und durch Vorstellung« on one side and »durch und durch Wille« on the other), which c-schopenhauer-will-alone-is-thing-in-itself states.

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