Perhaps no part of Nietzsche's philosophical thinking has been the occasion of more confusion, misunderstanding and mischief among his readers and interpreters — both friendly and hostile — than his treatment of knowledge, truth, and certain matters relating to them (although his treatments of value and morality and of what might loosely be called our human nature and differences are also contenders for this distinction). I consider this doubly unfortunate, not only owing to the consequences of the flames he has been used to fan and fuel, but also because of the importance of the contribution his thinking on these matters (as I understand it) might have made to subsequent inquiry. It is my hope that this contribution might yet be made.¹