ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates Friedrich Nietzsche's criticisms of truth and his view of truth. Truth perspectivism is intended by Nietzsche to serve as a counter to the pervasive absolutism about truth in the philosophical tradition. In two millennia of thinking about truth, philosophers have proposed many varieties of truth: objective truth; absolute truth; contingent truth; universal truth; logical truth; necessary truth; scientific truth; personal truth; relative truth; pragmatic truth, the list goes on and on. In Nietzsche's work, he is most concerned to deny the viability of correspondence theories of truth, although what he says also undermines certain versions of coherence theories. In The Genealogy of Morals it is the will to truth that motivates the generation of genealogies, underlies the rejection of science as the only method via which truth is to be discovered, and warrants the critical appraisal of the value of truth.
