"Nietzsche argued that what people treat as fixed truths often consists of metaphors and human relations that acquire authority through repeated conventional use."
Nietzsche's essay, written in 1873, describes how metaphorical and socially established interpretations come to seem fixed and binding through habitual use. The passage appears in the author's research notes through Justin Gregg's If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal at ebook location 655 and provides a philosophical reference for the chapter's discussion of context, interpretations, and socially established truths.
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