#  Anne Dymek (Harvard) - ‘This Image is Sound’ — Nietzsche’s Anschauungsmetapher as a Theory of the Ontogenesis of Language 

 



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 **October 27, 2022** 

 05:30PM - 07:30PM EDT 

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 **Nebel Room, Barker 359**  



 

 



 

 In “Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinne” (1873), Friedrich Nietzsche offers a fascinating but convoluted theory of the ontogenesis of language and the mentalia involved therein. I argue that his concept of *Anschauungsmetapher* (perceptual metaphor) allows for a logical explanation of the relationship between mind, world, and language. As I put this text in a dialogue with Aristotle’s and Kant’s philosophies, theories of abduction, and the neuroscientific hypothesis of semantic alignment, I will throw light on Nietzsche’s *Anschauungsmetapher* as a mental operation of encoding that precedes and enables language.



 

 



 

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