The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that ‘truths' are fictions masking moral commitments. (John Carroll)

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that ‘truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

John Carroll

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