Ideally not an ableist slur, if we can help it
Comment on Nihilism spectrum
yesman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nihilism (the philosophy) needs a new label. Like “retarded” or “manic depressive”, the common usage has overtaken the academic meaning. I’m not complaining, this is a natural and good process of language. Just saying we need a new term.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s extremely common for different fields of inquiry (scientific, mathematical, philosophical, etc) to reuse common words. If we had to come up with brand new words for everything in every field then we’d all be speaking gibberish, like they do in medicine!