(October 6, 2022 at 12:53 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Belief - the psychological state in which one accepts a premise or proposition as being true, or likely true.Belief - The judgment that a certain unobserved thing existed, exists, or will exist
Knowledge - a subset of belief. Sometimes defined as "justified true belief".
Theism - broadly defined as the belief in the existence of a supreme being or deities.
Atheism - is commonly understood as non-acceptance or rejection of theism in the broadest sense of theism, i.e. non-acceptance or rejection of belief in God or gods.
gnosticism - one who claims to know that a god exist. Different than the Gnostic religious sects who place personal spiritual experience with a god, over orthodox teachings or authority.
Agnosticism - view that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown, and possibly unknowable.
Ignosticism - the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because the word "God" has no coherent and unambiguous definition.
Knowledge - Understanding the characteristics of an observed thing.
Theism - The belief that a sentient being greater than man created reality
Atheism - The judgment that a sentient being greater than man who created reality has not been validly demonstrated to have existed or to exist
Gnosticism - A soteriology based on learning hidden knowledge (usually one a broad class of early Jesus movements)
Agnosticism - The position that belief in a sentient being greater than man who created reality is to be withheld in the absence of evidence (perhaps identical to my definition of atheism given above)
Ignosticism - (a neologism?)
Antitheism - The judgment that a sentient being greater than man who created reality cannot and does not exist (this is my position with respect to the god described in the Bible, and also in the Summa Theologica, based on internal contradictions).
