EvF Wrote:For my belief is not a belief but a dislbelief. When I say "I believe there is no free will" I am IOW saying that I DISbelieve in free will. So I don't need evidence of 'no free will' I need evidence OF free will - since I am not being absolutist.A disbelief and a belief are entirely different things. If you say "I believe there is no free will" then you are making a claim, and it needs backing up. This is not the same as saying "I disbelieve in free will". To disbelieve does not require any assertion of your own, just a rejection of a certain belief.
This is why the gnostic atheists will say "I believe there is no god" or "I know there is no god" (both are claims). The agnostic atheists will say "I do not believe in a god" or "I don't know if there is a god" (both are rejections, the first rejecting belief, the latter rejecting claims of knowledge).
Your belief that it is an illusion is a positive belief, not a disbelief. If someone says "I believe that my mother is in heaven", my rejection of that idea does not mean I believe that the belief is an illusion. It simply means that do not accept the belief that someone's mother is in heaven. Illusion is a claim, not a default position. The default position is non-existence. Something can not exist, but at the same time it cannot also be an illusion. An illusion must exist itself to be an illusion, so by claiming something is an illusion, you must provide evidence that the illusion exists.
