Atheists & Agnostics

LostOne4Ever

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3. The people who wrote that obviously

Reply to beam me up scottie (Original post)

Sat Mar 28, 2015, 06:06 PM

Mar 2015

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[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Never looked up the definition of negate & denial. Those words don't mean opposite but rather holding something as not true...meaning the difference between an agnostic & atheist is non-existent.

Regardless, they are not an authority on the English language and their def is in direct conflict w the Oxford English dictionary (considered THE authority on the English language) as well as the historical meaning of the word atheist.[/font]

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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism/ [View all] beam me up scottie Mar 2015 OP

Good to know, Curmudgeoness Mar 2015 #1

I was curious about who else was using that idiotic definition. beam me up scottie Mar 2015 #2

One has to question the position skepticscott Mar 2015 #6

Oh I questioned more than that. beam me up scottie Mar 2015 #7

The people who wrote that obviously LostOne4Ever Mar 2015 #3

Exactly. beam me up scottie Mar 2015 #4

The stupid part of it all is LostOne4Ever Mar 2015 #9

It's also in conflict with the worldview of every atheist I know. LiberalAndProud Mar 2015 #5

Supposedly they have recieved multiple petitions to do that LostOne4Ever Mar 2015 #8

Great find, LO4E! beam me up scottie Mar 2015 #10

Yes this is a very nice find SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2015 #11

Rational discourse is not possible with dogmatic fundamentalist anti-atheists. beam me up scottie Mar 2015 #13

you seem a little hostile SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2015 #14

LMAO! beam me up scottie Mar 2015 #15

Can you tell me... SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2015 #16

There was none. beam me up scottie Mar 2015 #17

The Stanford site is, for better or worse, the goto web source for philosophical definitions. Warren Stupidity Mar 2015 #12

Why would you be shocked by Stanford's reply? PhamNewan Feb 2016 #18

Give us some examples skepticscott Feb 2016 #19

Talking about a subject without getting the input of the subject is bad philosophy LostOne4Ever Feb 2016 #22

OK now my head is throbbing. lindysalsagal Feb 2016 #20

Find an arcane academic technical definition... onager Feb 2016 #21