Nietzsche's 1873 unpublished essay arguing that truth is 'a mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms' — that all human knowledge is perspectival and anthropocentric, that concepts are worn-out metaphors we have forgotten are metaphors — anticipating his later perspectivism.
Articulates the most radical nominalism about truth — there are no eternal truths, only frozen human conventions, and the person who believes they have truth has merely forgotten that their concepts are metaphors — making this essay the seed of Nietzsche's perspectivism and a founding text of poststructuralist philosophy of language.
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