the ikara cult |
12.23.2009 10:30 PM |
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Originally Posted by pbradley
In responding to this, I would like to refer back to my example of the chair in the closed room. An atheism of this definition assumes both hard atheism and agnosticism. By atheism, let's say it is achairism. There is an assertion of the lack of a chair and a suspension of a lack of a chair. To further answer this question, we must contrast belief from knowledge. What would we call knowledge that there is no chair? Achairism? No, that can't be. To be charitable, we must consider not an assertion of a lack of a chair but the opposition of to the belief in an chair. So, considering the etymology, we get an a-chairism and an a-chair-ism. That is, 'not a belief in chair' or 'a belief that chair is not.' This distinction is schismatic and we return to the question: what would we call the knowledge that there is no chair? What is atheism as both opposition and denial? I mean denial here in the sense of making a conclusive metaphysical statement (or, rather, a denial of metaphysics).
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Fine
Extend your point to include tables, sofas, colostomy bags, girraffes with 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 necks and every other thing you can possibly imagine including the God you are thinking of now, and now, and now, and now, which are equally likely then you might have a point.
You could of course acknowlege the limitations of the human mind and its inability to assert any of these things, but coming from such a prime beef example as yourself you probbaly wont.
til then
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