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While Nietzsche's quote that 'there are no eternal facts' has been appropriated by relativists, this statement is entirely consistent with our Popperian approach to truth today: we hold on to truths before new evidence comes along to prove otherwise....

Nietzsche was in the end a radical empiricist — a self-declared enemy of ideology, ideologues and people who cling dogmatically to systems, beliefs and '-isms'.
-- Patrick West. Nietzsche's Enlightenment, Spiked (May 2017).
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