Our categories, and the judgments we form with them, can never correspond to things in themselves because they are formed through a series of transformations which ensures that ‘there is no causality, no correctness, and no expression’ connecting the first stage (the stimulus) with the last (the concept) (Nietzsche 2000, pp.  58).
我们借助隐喻而形成的范畴和判断决不能与事物本身相对应，因为它们是通过一系列的转变而形成的，这些转变确保了第一阶段（刺激）和第二阶段（概念）的联结中“没有因果关系、正确性或是表达” (Nietzsche 2000, pp.  58)。