According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.... A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy.
Well, okay. Maybe nothing can be known (don't know about "communicated," I'm doing my best) and maybe there's also the implication that life has no intrinsic meaning or value, but that's no reason to satisfy the occasional itch to lob a brick through the random storefront window.
But even if it's impossible to know Anything, can one still know Nothing and claim to have made some sort of headway in understanding the way the Universe works?
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