Full Idea
We have only one form of understanding - concept, the more general case that subsumes the particular case.
Gist of Idea
We can only understand through concepts, which subsume particulars in generalities
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 26[156])
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1884-85 (v 15)', ed/tr. Loeb,P.S./Tinsley,D.F. [Stanford 2022], p.173
A Reaction
This is precisely Aristotle's problem with scientific explanation - that we aim to understand each particular, but accounts and definitions have to be expressed with universals.