In 1873, a German philosopher named Frederich Nietzsche wrote an essay entitled “On Truth and Lies in the Non-Moral Sense,” which addresses a broad epistemological question of truth and language, including concept formation. In this essay Nietzsche attempts to explain the origin of people's understanding of truth and lies. Nietzsche points out that the brain classifies everything it encounters into groups of systematically similar objects called concepts. He uses concept formation and the use of metaphors to demonstrate that, although many metaphors do not correspond to reality, they lead to debate whether their "truth" actually exists. Nietzsche stated that “we believe we know something about the things themselves when we talk about trees, colors, snow and flowers; yet we possess nothing but metaphors of things, metaphors which in no way correspond to the original entities” (118). He is suggesting that although one can understand the language used to describe certain concepts such as trees, colors and snow, these are only generalizations and there is no real knowledge on the subject within the metaphors. Language and metaphors are something that every human uses and Nietzsche argues that humans forget that after creating these metaphorical words and/or phrases, they jump to the conclusion that they are true because they seem acceptable and forget that they need to connect reality real to linguistic being. used (Glenn 2004). This exegetical document will reflect on the last two lines on page 144 and the first two lines on 145 of the text. This section is found halfway through the text when Nietzsche explains that language does not fully explain meaning. Nietzsche stat...... middle of paper ...... objects are described using language accepted by those around them, it does not provide exact and realistic knowledge of what people are actually experiencing. This suggests that because every human experiences situations differently, they cannot or should not be explained using the same words or language. Nietzsche argues that because one word can mean many different things to many different people, there is no exact truth or complete explanation. Nietzsche argues that understanding objects and/or things through systematic groupings or concepts is not possible since each individual organism and object is individualized and unique in one way or another and therefore cannot be considered similar to any other object and/or thing. Consequently, Nietzsche suggests that the only “truth” that results from the use of metaphors is that of a form of deception or lying..