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for language itself is in flux, born of circumstances that differ from time to time, place to place, people to people. Famously, Nietzsche writes:

What then is truth? A moveable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding.

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