Meaning

According to Hegarty, the paradox of nihilism is "that the absence of meaning seems to be some sort of meaning".

Truth

Luhmann

Niklas Luhmann

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 construes the paradox as stating "that consequently, only the untrue could be the truth". In a footnote in his PhD thesis, Slocombe equates nihilism with the liar paradox

Liar paradox

In philosophy and logic, the liar paradox or liar's paradox , is the statement "this sentence is false"...

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Religion

Rivas locates the paradox in the "conservative attitude of Roman Catholicism" developed in reaction to Nietzschean nihilism, in that it "betrays a form of nihilism, that is, the forced oblivion of the real ambiguity and the paradox that inform the distinction between the secular and the sacred".

Critical Legal Theory

In Critical Legal Studies

Critical legal studies

Critical legal studies is a movement in legal thought that applied methods similar to those of critical theory to law. The abbreviations "CLS" and "Crit" are sometimes used to refer to the movement and its adherents....

(CLS) theory, the arguments used to criticize the centrist position also undermine the position of CLS.

Ethics

According to Bornemark, "the paradox of nihilism is the choice to continue one's own life while at the same time stating that it is not worth more than any other life". Wright sees relativism as the root of the paradox.