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A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
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One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.
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an advocate of anarchism
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a man who judges of the world as it is that it ought not to be, and of the world as it ought to be that it does not exist
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In the context of Buddhist teachings, someone who, upon hearing about emptiness, comes to the mistaken conclusion that nothing exists; for example, that there's no cause and effect of actions or no past and future lives.
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