The philosophy of "as if", a system of the theoretical, practical and religious fictions of mankind
Book by Hans VaihingerWikipedia
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Oct 6, 2026
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What this is based on could be characterized in the following way.
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Imagine someone who has a book which he has been reading for a long time.
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He has read it again and again, and certain information contained in the book has become a part of the way he lives.
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Then one day he thinks to himself, yes, here I have this book before me, and I have always assumed that it gives me information about certain things.
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But when I take a really good look at it, the pages contain nothing but letters, letters, and more letters.
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I have really been an ass to believe that information about things that are not even in the book could somehow flow to me from it.
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For nothing is there but letters.
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I have been living in the mad expectation that if I let these letters affect me, and if I enter into a relationship with them, they could give me something.