Sentence:  But nihilism is also compatible with existence monism—the thesis that there is a single, all-encompassing simple (the cosmos, a.k.a. “the <WSD>blobject</WSD>”)—as well as the extreme nihilist thesis that there are no objects whatsoever. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The entire universe viewed as a single entity featuring internal variability but not containing discrete parts.