The argument that Nietzsche could not have propounded a set of statements which put him at such radical variance with traditional ways of understanding the place of logic and grammar in our discourse, because any set of statements must presuppose to some large degree just that kind of understanding, misses the point. Nietzsche’s final standpoint, that toward rather than from which he speaks, cannot be expressed as a set of statements. Statements are made only to be discarded—and sometimes taken up again—in that movement from utterance to utterance in which what is communicated is the movement. Nietzsche did not advance a new theory against older theories; he proposed an abandonment of theory.
— Alisdair MacIntyre, ‘Genealogies and Subversions’ in Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality (ed. R. Schacht). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, p. 298.
