Despite his contempt for women as thinkers—for the “eternally tedious in woman” 40 —Nietzsche paid them the ironic compliment of recognizing that Truth might need to be wooed by means inaccessible to Aristotelian logic and Hegelian dialectic, to the enraptured intellectualism of a Spinoza, the tidy empiricism of a Locke, the structures and systems and formulations of a thousand gifted masculine aspirants to total consistency. One might as easily argue a woman into a reasoned position against her will as pin down with syllogism and theorem the knowing that is creating, the creating that is law-giving, the consistency that is transformation, the logic that is action.