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Anxiety is a natural reaction to uncertainty. In nihilism, pervasive loss of meaning makes everything uncertain; existential angst is a response.

This page is unfinished. It may be a mere placeholder in the book outline. Or, the text below (if any) may be a summary, or a discussion of what the page will say, or a partial or rough draft. Nihilistic anxiety is also called existential angst . Nihilistic anxiety is pervasive; it is not about anything in particular. Not being able to make sense of specific things naturally causes anxiety about them, because of uncertainty. Not being able to make sense of anything —a consequence of nihilism—causes non-specific, pervasive anxiety. The underlying worry is that our perception of meaningness is u

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