RE: Are Deists more like theists or Atheist?
May 27, 2015 at 3:52 pm
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2015 at 3:57 pm by Pyrrho.)
Reporting what they stated about religion, without mentioning the milieu in which they lived, is misleading. If you wish to avoid such speculations, it is better to say, "he stated..." or "he wrote that..." before whatever one wants to say. One may know what people wrote, but that does not necessarily tell us what they believed.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
