RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
October 4, 2015 at 1:12 am
(October 4, 2015 at 12:50 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Okay here is the answer to your question. Belief as state uses boolean logic. Either you in something or you don't. If you say "I don't know what to believe" then I would say you clearly don't believe. I do note that some theists may use that phrase to denote confusion, but in that moment they usually still actually believe.
I think it's more apt to say belief is like database logic, where the states are true, false, and null. Null and false can be treated similarly in most cases, but it seems to reflect the difference between the agnostic and gnostic variants of atheism better. One returns a negative result because they actively hold a belief that there are no gods (false), the other returns a negative result because there is simply no belief present (null).
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