R: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
October 4, 2015 at 9:16 pm
(October 4, 2015 at 8:55 pm)EvidenceVersusFaith Wrote: The verb, defined from google.com:
lack=
Quote:be without or deficient in.
It's the deficient part that pisses me off. Pet peeve of mine, years ago I used to say lack and I saw that - as a thesaurus reader, I spent 8 months reading a thesaurus- and it pissed me right off lol.
So I just say absence, meh. Without works but I usually hear people say "lack" half the time and "absence" half the time, I stick with "absence".
My two cents,
Silly pet peeve,
Peace out,
EvF
So you object to being deficient in stupidity, foolishness, insanity, assholishness, etc.? Lacking something is a good thing, if what one lacks is bad. It is only if one lacks something good that lacking something may be bad.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
