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Nietzsche by contrast rejects the very distinction between appearance and reality. He has much to say about the origins of that notion of reality. Of course he ties it back to monotheism and the insistence of one god. He says once we learn to reject that notion of a true world behind this one, what we're left with is not nothing by any means. We reject the true the world and we reject the notion of appearances at the same time. After all what sense does it make to talk about appearances if we're not talking about appearances of something. So Nietzsche's nihilism here is really rather benign. it has to do with the idea of rejecting what gives rise to skepticism and what gives rise to these illusions of the otherworldly and in so doing plant our feet very firmly on the earth and say "this world and this life is what counts".
In other words, the things that we believe, even those things we believe are the very foundations of knowledge, even those things we believe are a matter of utter necessity, as proven by other philosophers, in effect is a matter of contingency. we are a certain kind of creature living in a certain kind of world and as those creatures we are going to believe something because, to use a different kind of language, it's practical, it's pragmatic. In fact I would argue that Nietzsche's view of truth here is very much akin to the one that's defended about 50 years later by some of the American philosophers, John Dewey in particular, that what is true has to do with what works in a certain context and that's about as much as you can say. The idea of the truth that lies behind it all, that's something on which we should remain respectfully silent.

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from XVI​.​III God Is Dead, released January 26, 2012
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