(July 6, 2015 at 1:34 pm)pool Wrote:(July 6, 2015 at 1:17 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: Pool, x=/=y just because you say it does. That's the problem with your argument, if you can call it that.
If there were no theists, everyone would be atheists, because nobody would believe in god. It's that simple. The evidence of atheism isn't dependent on theism, the term's existence is.
If there were no people who believe in fairies, nobody would believe in fairies. The only difference between the two situations is that in the first we have separate words for both kinds of people.
I don't know how to put it simpler.
But you wouldn't even be aware of the idea of a fairy - or that word for that matter if it didn't exist.
All you'd have is a void as far as fairy is concerned.How can you not believe in this void? This is the part that i can't seem to understand no matter in which angle how i looked at it.
It's basically like how it is in time traveling :
If a women gave birth to a child in 1999 and i went back to 1998 and killed the women - then child that was born in 1999 would cease to exist but what you are saying is that the child does exist.
In bounds of the analogy,that is.
No, for fuck's sake! Do you believe in things that you have never heard of?
