Message from @ETBrooD
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Nowadays I could perhaps be considered an empiricist
Not sure
Tell be about "a" and "not" being different.
Damn.
Removed the image by accident:
Look
Linguistically speaking you can say it has the same meaning, but the history of atheism isn't fixated on that, because the historical context made it so that different terminology had to be invented as the idea evolved over time.
Therefore atheism and non-theism is not the same today, even though it could've happened to be the same if history had gone differently
It's like the difference between being social and being pro-social. You can argue it means the same thing, or not, depending on how you're arguing.
The terminology is not as important, the meaning or the definition is what matters
Agnostic atheism and non-theism is the same.
No they're not, I've explained why that isn't the case
Yeah, you believe in non-god supernatural, then.
lol no
I explained that in even greater detail
You have your definitions where atheist cannot believe in elves, where as non-theists can.
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And you are a non-theist, not an atheist.
Have you already forgotten the difference between supernatural and paranormal?
So you believe in paranormal?
What is your point?
Other non-theists can believe in the paranormal
If you don't believe in supernatural or paranormal, you are even by your re-definition, an atheist, rather than non-theist.
Since I don't, clearly there's a separation between them and me. But we all don't believe in the supernatural.
No, an atheist rejects God(s) altogether, I don't
So you are a theist?
I allow for the *possibility* that God(s) could exist
No, I see the possibility only
That's agnostic atheist.
Yes
Ok. You admitted it. Agnostic **atheist**.
Glad we got to the conclusion.
Yes, because that's how the terminology evolved over time, but I'm not an *atheist*
Nope, I have it screencapped:
You seem to believe that just because people have added the term "atheist" to "agnostic", that somehow makes it different
Agnostic = agnostic atheist
But
Atheist =/= agnostic
The most proper terminology would be agnostic
Agnostic atheist is just a fancy term for saying "I'm kinda uncertain what I am"