If a hypotheis had been tested and proven and is considered a fact, how can nihi

Question: If a hypotheis had been tested and proven and is considered a fact, how can nihilism explain that these!.!.!.!?

facts are unreal!? or maybe how can it argue that the facts presented are non-existent!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Nihilism neither asserts nor denies facts as being unreal or non-existent!. Nihilism is based on mood not empirical evidence!.
Nihilism is simply the philosophical position that existence is meaningless!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

When a hypothesis is tested (like gravity) and then becomes a "fact" and then relativity comes along and "corrects" it, was it ever a "fact"!?

When a hypothesis is tested and proven adequate it becomes a theory (such as the theory of gravity!.)

There is much debate over what is a fact!. The influence of God in my life is a fact, but it isn't a hypothesis open to examination!. Nor is it a theory!. It is the ground of my being, but to you it may be nonsense!.

I am no nihilist, but even rigorous scientists don't throw the word "fact" around very easily!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

you need to understand what a fact is!.

"Moreover, "fact" does not mean "absolute certainty!." The final proofs of logic and mathematics flow deductively from stated premises and achieve certainty only because they are not about the empirical world!. Evolutionists make no claim for perpetual truth, though creationists often do (and then attack us for a style of argument that they themselves favor)!. In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent!." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms!."
-Stephen Jay GouldWww@QuestionHome@Com