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Nihilism

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Nietzsche's Distinguishment of Truth

Nietzsche was interested in all three of these ideas. I think Raymond's right that he did attack truth under the first respect. He wove truth in power when he said that truth is a mobile army of metaphors. Truth is a customary metaphor and becomes customary when it is adhered to by the most powerful group in society. So although I entirely accept your differentiation of different aspects or strata of truth, I think Nietzsche undermined the foundations of all of those three,. but presented his ideas themselves as truths and thus was incoherent.

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