C. The “Apparent” and the “True” WorldsA philosopher who embraced the senses and becoming in the face of the tendency of rationalism is Heraclitus. He did think that the senses are deceptive, but only because they present objects as being relatively permanent, while all things in reality are in flux. Nietzsche claims against Heraclitus and the Eleatic defenders of being” that the senses are not deceptive at all. Any claim to permanence, substance, thing hood, etc. in the world is based on an interpretation of what the senses present. The senses present the “apparent” world as it is, with its becoming passing away, and in general change. Nietzsche contends that the real product of the deception of reason is the “true” world of which the “apparent” world is supposed to be a distortion.
