[lbo-talk] Re: theism, atheism and dont give a fuckism

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 08:28:19 PDT 2005


I'm sorry that I brought up agnosticism. It brought up a useless debate about the true meaning of words...

Since such meanings are totally a matter of convention, such debates can go on forever.

On 5/31/05, J. Tyler <jptyler at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Just do the linguistics.
>
> Consider the proposition: God exists.
>
> Anybody who accepts the proposition as true is a theist. Anybody who
> rejects the truth value of the proposition is an atheist (including
> those who "don't know," as that is a rejection of the proposition's
> truth).
>
> Anybody who is not a theist (i.e., affirmatively accepts the truth of
> the proposition "God exists") is an atheist (hence the prefix). Within
> atheism, one can take a couple of different positions. Consider the
> proposition: God does not exist.
-- Jim Devine "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- K. Marx, paraphrasing Dante A.



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