(July 30, 2016 at 4:34 am)robvalue Wrote: Atheist still covers believing it might exist. If you don't actively believe it does exist, you're an atheist.You can categorize it like that if you want, and many here do, but I don't accept that view of it. Your view is that a maybe-theist lacks an active belief, so is not actually a theist, so is atheist. That's fine. My view is that a maybe-theist, or anyone with an unresolved yes/no question, actually holds two contrary beliefs, until one can be discarded. And this accords with physics-- Schrodinger's cat is both alive and dead until you open the box.
So until I can open the box and discard either the "exists" or "doesn't exist" idea, I consider myself in a state of duality or ambiguity, not a state of not-theist.
