Professor Argues Nihilism Philosophically Incoherent Like Claiming Everything Meaningless is Meaningful

What was said

"If I say something like this, 'Everything that everybody says is meaningless and no one can ever recover the intention of the speaker. I want you to understand this. This is on the test.' That is incoherent. I'm pulling out the rug from underneath my own claim."

Dr. Budziszewski systematically dismantled nihilistic philosophy by demonstrating its self-refuting nature through the concept of incoherence—distinct from mere contradiction. He argued that absurdist and nihilistic thinkers fundamentally undermine their own claims by asserting meaningful arguments for meaninglessness, making their entire philosophical project internally contradictory.