RE: I have some questions for the posters here.
June 28, 2021 at 6:43 am
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2021 at 6:59 am by vulcanlogician.)
(June 28, 2021 at 6:36 am)Frank Apisa Wrote: New born infants and toddlers who do not "believe" in any gods are not atheists by default.
Yeah. We don't call newborns "atheists." But neither do we call them "illiterate"... even though (technically) both terms apply.
edit: we need to be more careful trying to draw essential definitions from etymology, too. It's a good guidepost, but no good for precise conversation. For instance, "antonym" derives from "anti" (Greek for against) and "onuma" (Greek for name). But we should not say that the essential definition of antonym is "against the name."
