@Purple Rabbit
Lumping "strong agnosticism" in with agnosticism is perfectly consistent with getting a simple scale like the one we presented. Both a strong agnostic and a weak agnostic would answer the question "Can the existence / non-existence of gods be conclusively established?" with a 'no'. How they got to that answer is different for each, but our scale isn't interested in the method by which they answer the question, just their answer to it.
Regarding theological non-cognitivism, I already said you could place it in the "apatheist" category. You yourself said, however, that in a simplified scale, there isn't much of a need for such positions. Again, you charge that this has something to do with "personal preference" without even mentioning how. There is nothing "personal" about this. As I explained to you before, this was all done last year, before we'd even talked about the different types of agnosticism and theological noncognitivism. This is a simple scale; it covers almost everyone regarding belief in God. It isn't meant to cover every single belief (I doubt that would be even possible), and to keep things simple it lumps positions together where the belief outcome is the same (though different methods are used of getting there).
If you want to work on another scale with me, I'd be very happy to do so. My friend last night proposed that not all possible positions are available on a linear scale such as this, so perhaps a 2 dimensional model might be better. I would be very interested to see if we can get all the positions (or at least, the vast majority of them) onto a scale.
Lumping "strong agnosticism" in with agnosticism is perfectly consistent with getting a simple scale like the one we presented. Both a strong agnostic and a weak agnostic would answer the question "Can the existence / non-existence of gods be conclusively established?" with a 'no'. How they got to that answer is different for each, but our scale isn't interested in the method by which they answer the question, just their answer to it.
Regarding theological non-cognitivism, I already said you could place it in the "apatheist" category. You yourself said, however, that in a simplified scale, there isn't much of a need for such positions. Again, you charge that this has something to do with "personal preference" without even mentioning how. There is nothing "personal" about this. As I explained to you before, this was all done last year, before we'd even talked about the different types of agnosticism and theological noncognitivism. This is a simple scale; it covers almost everyone regarding belief in God. It isn't meant to cover every single belief (I doubt that would be even possible), and to keep things simple it lumps positions together where the belief outcome is the same (though different methods are used of getting there).
If you want to work on another scale with me, I'd be very happy to do so. My friend last night proposed that not all possible positions are available on a linear scale such as this, so perhaps a 2 dimensional model might be better. I would be very interested to see if we can get all the positions (or at least, the vast majority of them) onto a scale.
