(August 5, 2015 at 11:51 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:(August 5, 2015 at 11:02 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: "Not an atheist" means "a theist." Double negation does that. That does not mean that Aoi Magi will accept what follows logically, but it is what it means to be "not an atheist."
Not at all. He could well be an "Idon'tknowist".
You don't like it when theists tell you what your atheism involves. You should avoid the hypocrisy of dictating to another member their beliefs, and at the very least give them the chance to, you know, explain for themselves.
Seriously, don't be so patronizing. It's not only insulting to the subject, it shows you in your worst light to the audience.
Did you not bother to read the last sentence in my post? I specifically said that Aoi Magi may not accept what I was saying. So you are just wrong in saying that I was dictating to another member their beliefs.
That does not alter the fact that "atheism" means "not theism" and therefore "not atheism" means "not not theism" or in other words "theism."
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
