In the first aphorism of On The Prejudices OF Philosophers, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of being prejudiced in valuing truth over untruth. Though in the book Nietz

Though such arguments do seem quite convincing upon first inspection, there are many problems that arise. For example, aren’t there some things that are just true? Nietzsche as I mentioned earlier rejects Cartesian foundationalism on the grounds that it is not an immediate certainty. But what about a priori truths of rationalism? Surely a statement such as ‘all bachelors are unmarried men’ is a certainty? But Nietzsche could argue that it is not, given what he said about logic and mathematic – they are ‘necessary but false’. What we have to assume is that Nietzsche is implying that they are systems with their own internal rules, and what is taken for the truth we require is simply the consistency of these sets of internal rules rather than any correspondence between them and the world. Also Nietzsche’s account of truth is too complicated. Is he simply advocating a trivial relativism, where everything goes, epistemologically speaking? Another problem with Nietzsche’s arguments is what is the status of his claims about the world if he is moving beyond the concept of Truth? Why should we even consider to be swayed by his arguments if what he says is not true? For purely saying that there is no truth is a truth in its own right.

With nothing being True or immediately certain, Nietzsche goes on to question to be what we consider the ‘True’ world. From Plato to Kant, philosophers have insisted that there is a True world somewhere, a world that is beyond the world of false appearances. It was Kant that posited the idea of a thing-in-itself, but thought that, as finite human beings with a specific perceptual make-up, we would never be able to access it. Nietzsche thinks that

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