(December 14, 2022 at 4:18 pm)Objectivist Wrote:(December 10, 2022 at 11:11 am)LinuxGal Wrote: All atheists and theists alike are agnostic (don't know) so in the interest of parsimony we just cancel out the extraneous terms on both sides of the equation.
I'm not agnostic. I'm a strong atheist. The notion of God violates the axiom of existence. The notion of God violates the axiom of consciousness. The notion of god violates the axiom of identity. The notion of God violates the primacy of existence. The notion of God violates the law of causality. The notion of God commits the fallacy of pure self-reference. The notion of God commits the fallacy of the stolen concept. The notion of God is a floating abstraction. The concept of God is invalid as it can't be reduced to sense data. The claim that God exists is self-contradictory, making use of the primacy of existence in making the claim while denying the primacy of existence in the content of the claim. I can go on with much more.
While most atheists are agnostic, some are not and I'm one. I don't even think it's debatable. Debate presupposes the primacy of existence, the notion of gods assumes the primacy of consciousness. To even debate it is to make use of stolen concepts.
Nice summary. I am an agnostic atheist, but I think that all the points that you list are valid.