Whereas the nihilist is closer in spirit to the Academic Sceptics of yore who entertained the notion that “true knowledge”, in the sense of the Platonic Form of it, is unattainable and humans are condemned to only ever experience the Form indirectly and falsely through its instantiations. Conversely, forcing an absolute on an instance (or vice versa) is a fallacy: the conflation between the scopes of application of the items being considered (treating the absolute in terms of an instance, or the instance as if it were an ideal). I am starting to question the motivation for writing this, for I now question whether there are any “true nihilists” out there, in the absolute sense of “true” and “nihilist”.