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[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nihilism is related to existentialism, and is about believing in nothing but what you experience or can prove.

Oh, so I am a nihilist? ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As another commenter pointed out, this is a bad description of nihilism. That sentence describes empiricism.

You are probably an empiricist.

As that other commenter pointed out:

Nihilism is the rejection of meaning, ethics, or knowledge as things that actually exist objectively.