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    It is not the case that The nihilist bears the same evidential burden as the skeptic: undercutting defeaters must themselves be positively established.

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    • 1.Undercutting defeaters can be negative/conditional claims (if X, then not-justified) that don't require independent positive evidence.
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    • 2.Nihilism denies meaning entirely while skepticism merely suspends judgment; these require fundamentally different burdens of proof.
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    • 3.Showing existing justifications fail doesn't require positive proof—logical analysis of flawed arguments suffices as defeaters.
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    • 1.Undercutting defeaters logically function as positive claims about knowledge or justification that require their own rational support.
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    • 2.Asymmetric burdens of proof allow unfalsifiable positions to avoid scrutiny, undermining rational discourse standards.
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    • 3.Both nihilism and skepticism deny established beliefs, so parity demands equal evidential rigor for both denial strategies.
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