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as the Supreme Court of Appeal, because Truth was not allowed to be a problem. Do you understand this “allowed”? From the minute that the belief in the God of the ascetic ideal is repudiated, there exists a new problem : the problem of the value of truth. The Will for Truth needed a critique⁠—let us define by these words our own task⁠—the value of truth is tentatively to be called in question .⁠ ⁠… (If this seems too laconically expressed, I recommend the reader to peruse again that passage from the Joyful Wisdom which bears the title, “How far we also are still pious,” Aph. 344, and best of all the whole fifth book of that work, as well as the Preface to The Dawn of Day .)