(August 24, 2023 at 5:45 am)FrustratedFool Wrote:(August 24, 2023 at 5:38 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Why do you ask? Isn’t the question meaningless?
Boru
I dont think so, no.
that - right there, is all I mean by the negotiation with reality that I keep talking about. Where a person -needs- to specify that they are only a nihilist about some things, and that they accept some things even if those things are premised identically to things they reject as a part of nihilism as they know it, or as they practice it.
Broadly, this is what happened to nihilism (and absurdism, and existentialism). That's why it's hard to find good contemporary work on it. It turned into pragmatism.
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