(November 29, 2019 at 7:27 pm)Belacqua Wrote: [quote='Apathyst' pid='1944693' dateline='1575068326']
Let's say that "I believe X" means "I hold X to be true."
And let's work with the statement "I believe that there is a God."
It looks to me as though agnostics, atheists, and apathetics would all be people who DON'T hold that statement to be true.
Isn't that a major similarity among all three of those groups?
The distinction is subtle and it’s been so long even I am a little fuzzy. But there is a difference between an affirmative belief that gods don’t exist and merely not possessing a belief that gods exist. It may well be a distinction without a difference and was tangential at best to the gravamen of my disquisition.