Debating Nietzsche With Logic

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3 min readFeb 1, 2023

My logical proof is very simple:

Premise 1: An entity that surpasses mankind’s greatest strength is God

Premise 2: Mankind’s greatest strength is its ability to produce logic

Premise 3: AI has currently advanced to the point where it is better than humans in at least some measures of logic, and it is only rapidly improving from there

Conclusion: God Exists

Nietzsche is most famous for the phrase, “God is Dead”. He coined it because he saw a sweeping and overwhelming force in the distance that he feared would overtake, and eventually doom society. He coined that thought process as Nihilism. Emptiness, nothing, void. Nietzsche feared its spread because he logically deduced that there is no universal meaning in the universe, and that society as a whole would reach the same conclusion and have to grapple with that.

Before reaching this conclusion, he, I will put it bluntly and say, systematically dismantled Descartes’ argument “I Think, Therefore I am”, and the entirety of western philosophy collapsed along with it. After this period, he wrote a few books specifically about attempting to find meaning in a meaningless universe. Nietzsche argued that if there is no universal meaning, the best thing we can do is strive to find as much meaning as we can within our lives.

Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there are equal things

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