Nietzsche contemplates and works to validate the authenticity of pure truth in which arises from the origin of human language. The formatioin of ideas is especially important in Nietzsche's account, which aims to identify what we know as truth. Words, which make up language, are automatically transformed into ideas. These words or ideas, are the forms, in the sense that they act as a guidline and a template, giving us an overall understanding of what is not accounted for, which are the individual distinctions within those ideas. Nietzsche refers to this as "equating the unequal" because the form is not at all equal to the individual though they may correspond to one another, but we could not be sure of that either. Out of this also comes the notion of an idea being its own cause. Surely this can not be correct, considering that the forms encompass all of the various differences in an idea. That particular suggestion implies that these differences do not exist, which is clearly false.
"We call a man "honest"; we ask, why has he acted so honestly today? Our customary answer runs, "On account of his honesty." (p. 91) This exactly illlustrates the concept of an idea being its own cause. In this example, it appears to be an accurate conclusion due in part to the fact that the many ways in which one differentiates honest actions are ultimately the cause of the idea of honesty which language has constructed. Despite this, it is also because of these different actions of honesty that the idea is not exactly its own cause unless every single honest action was considered. On the matter of essence in these ideas that are formed from language, like the one just mentioned, which is the pure truth Nietzsche seeks, there is also reason to doubt such a claim. If an idea is the form, or general account of something, excluding specificity, then there exist many causes. Even implying this conclusion leaves us further from the core of truth and essence. It is not to say that our whole way of life is a foolish array of false accounts, but perhaps that we must not mistaken them for complete truth. Imagine, if language was structured based on the individual rather than the form, it would be much more complex, or so it seems. Would we then be a step closer to truth because each idea could directly connect to and be the cause of the thing itself? The language of nature is complex, one that is indistinguishable to us. In saying that, is it also the case that nature is closer to or as far from truth as we are because the "x" that it knows, of which Nietzsche speaks, is possibly more or less knowing to the essence of truth?
