Immediate certainty#
Summary#
Nietzsche critiques “immediate certainty” as a philosophical illusion, arguing that statements like “I think” involve a series of unproven metaphysical assumptions rather than self-evident truths. He contends that immediate certainty, along with “absolute knowledge” and “thing in itself,” constitutes a contradictio in adjecto. What appears as direct knowledge actually depends on prior concepts, comparisons with past mental states, and assumptions about causation and the existence of an “ego.”