In the piece “On Truth and Lying in a Non-moral Sense” Nietzsche talks about how everything we know as a fundamental truth of the world is in fact a lie or how he likes to put, a metaphor of the truth. This can be seen on pg. 755 in the third edition of the book where he says, “We believe that when we speak of trees, colours, snow, and flowers, we have knowledge of the things themselves, and yet we possess only metaphors of things”. The point that Nietzsche is trying to make is that these words, don’t convey what these objects really are. They are simply substations of the real thing but are never truly able to describe what those objects are in real life. So, in a sense it is only a lie that we tell ourselves about the world, since we have no other ways of expressing what those objects are with our language. Later on in the piece he points the further fallacy in the way that we so heavily rely on language to categorize how we view the world around us, when he talks about how no two leaves can be the same, but we still use the word leaf in order to describe all leaves, since have a word for each leaf in the world would be incredibly redundant. This idea of our understanding of the world being built upon by a foundation of lies is used to show how humans are unable to truly comprehend the truth of the world. Since everything we’ve come to understand has been built upon only half truths, which cannot grasp the whole picture of the world around us. Although, there is truth to what Nietzsche is saying (Ironic, I know), I disagree that our use of language is an outright lie to what the world is. Afterall, lying is stating something the opposite of what it is, but that’s not what language does. I believe much like how Culler mentions in his piece “What is Theory?” that “writing is a supplement for speech” that language in a way is a supplement for the world. Just like how certain aspects of speech can be misinterpreted, which is why there is a need for writing, our world can be misinterpreted by others which is why there is a need for language. Our use of language is a supplement for the world around us so that we can come to an agreed understanding of what the world around us is. Although, it may never fully capture the full experience it can give us a general gist of the world, making all the more comprehensible.