RE: Community help for Non-Cognitive?
November 3, 2012 at 11:37 am
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2012 at 11:50 am by TROC.)
(November 2, 2012 at 8:23 pm)mralstoner Wrote: TROC, if you want to avoid arguments you could just call yourself a low-threshold atheist instead of a non-cognitive atheist i.e. your criteria for dismissing the god hypothesis are minimal. I think the line between cognitive and non-cognitive atheism is too subtle and complex to explain to others.
I think you may be completely correct; normally I can get away with a more lightweight description but at some point the questions come up and I'll want to be able to explain myself.
The links to the Houston group are very interesting. I'm in Texas myself.
Thanks Mr. Al!
But that would take a blog to explain... Don't know if I want to make you feel that much safer yet... :-).
(November 3, 2012 at 12:34 am)apophenia Wrote: Your choice. You hinted you had an alternative framework, with alternative conclusions. If you can't explain it, or won't, I'm tempted to take a non-cognitive approach to your ideas and dismiss them as not being tangibly meaningful. ...
Sorry ap; I was being sarcastic related to your previous Hudson quote: "He's going to start a blog. I feel safer already."
(Sometimes I don't even get my own humor..)
Like most things not closely examined my prose and emotional vocabulary needs some work is all. And I ramble but I like my first bit: http://muscularatheist.blogspot.com/
Quote:I'm short a power cable for my file server. That's a cognitively determinate task I can pursue instead.
Now that's something I could have actually been useful for! I've got miles of cable.


