Nihilism presupposes neither positive nor negative outcomes, though, it simply asserts that the action or the outcome doesn't have any meaning, which is a neutral stance. Philosophical pessimism is more of a means of protection from disappointment than the more or less objective premise of nihilism.
There's overlap in the Venn diagram of nihilists and pessimists but it's far from a circle and the philosophies themselves are even less connected. One could easily exist without the other and to say that the two philosophies are rooted in one another is to confuse the trend for the rule.
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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.
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