JGB 21, cause and effect as conventional fictions, and the »An-sich«
Three sentences from the middle of aphorism 21. The quotation marks are Nietzsche's, as the Gutenberg transcription has them: »"An-sich"«, »"Causal-Verbänden"«, »"Nothwendigkeit"« and the rest are words he sets off, and the map keeps every pair in the translation and in the statements drawn from the sentences. The German sets off »die Wirkung auf die Ursache« as one phrase; the English cannot keep the phrase in one piece and splits it, »"the effect" does not follow "upon the cause"«. »Erdichtet« and »hineindichten« share the stem of dichten, to compose or invent; the English has "invented" and "invent ... into", which keeps the stem and loses the sense of poetry. »Verdinglichen« is "reify", »Tölpelei« "doltishness", »Zeichen-Welt« "sign-world". »Bis sie "Wirkt"« is rendered "until it "works"", which keeps the stem of »Wirkung« in English as far as it can be kept; »Causal-Verbänden«, literally causal bonds, is "causal connections"; »das Nacheinander« has the English word "succession" and »das Für-einander« has none and is given literally; »das regiert kein "Gesetz"« has »das« as the object, "no law governs that".