On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 7:11 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/25/2014 7:36 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Some claim that my problem in Brussels was that in the introduction to > "Conscience & Mécanisme" I make clear what I mean by agnostic (~[] g) and > atheists ([]~g). Natural language confuse easily ~[] and []~. Modal logic > is useful if only to explain that difference. > > > It's more complicated than that. It depends on what you mean by "g". Is > it the god of theism, who is a person who created the world, answers > prayers, and judges humans in an afterlife. Or is it the god of deism who > created the world but doesn't act in it. Or is it one of the "gods" of > mystics who is a principle or "nature" or an unnameable and unknowable > something. Literally "atheist" is one who is not a theist, one who fails > to believe in the god of theism. Thomas Jefferson was called an atheist > because he believed in the god of deism. > This use with Jefferson as example is particular. Atheism in most contexts is more broad, roughly the sense "belief in non-existence of god/deities"; where the kind of god matters less. Unless of course, this is some kind of US linguistic use/habbit or domain bound jargon. But if this is how you've always understood the term, then this explains why we've disagreed here before. ~[]g and []~g is independent of the kind of "g". PGC > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
