RE: Is atheism a belief?
March 11, 2019 at 5:10 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2019 at 5:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 11, 2019 at 4:54 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(March 11, 2019 at 12:14 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Is the correctness of a postulate not also a belief?
Atheists think that the postulate "God exists" is probably not true.
If that's a belief, then atheism is a belief.
That's not what atheists think, it's what some atheists think...but it's not really an answer to the question either, is it?
Unicornism isn't driving government policy, Benny, lol.
I'm not exactly the perfect person to opine upon why atheists like you or Bel do what you do on these boards or in general, how you divide your time, I'm a gnostic and an antitheist, but I can at least accept and understand your position..that I do not agree with.
I'll just ask again, in the context of this framework where the difference between belief and knowledge is correctness, is the correctness of a postulate not also a belief?
People have come up with all sorts of additional criteria to the tripartate theory in order to account for this.
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