Nietzsche’s treatment of objects is puzzling.  Recent 
commentators have argued that he is a common sense 
realist, an eliminativist, or a reductionist.  An 
argument is presented against these in favor of a 
constructivist or worldmaking reading.  Worldmaking 
is the thesis that an object’s being interpreted as 
some thing or other will in part but non-trivially 
constitute the identity conditions of that object.  
After attempting to make Nietzsche’s worldmaking a 
defensible philosophical position it is suggested that 
he might have held this view because of its role in 
combating a central cause of nihilism.