Most people treat nihilism as one monolithic belief ("nothing matters"), but philosophers actually split it into five independent schools: existential, cosmic, ethical, epistemological, and political. You can be a cosmic nihilist — convinced the universe is indifferent — without being an ethical nihilist who rejects morality. The schools answer five different "meaning what?" questions, and collapsing them into one obscures more than it reveals.
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