Re: Paper+Exercises+Naming Issue

From: George Levy <glevy.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 21:12:48 -0800

Stathis Papaioannou wrote:

> George Levy writes:
>
>> One more point for Stathis: If atheism is not a religion, then zero
>> is not a number.
>
> There is a clear difference between, on the one hand, believing x
> despite the lack of any supporting evidence and, on the other hand,
> not believing x because of the lack of any supporting evidence


As far as I know atheists believe in no god ( B~G or equivalently B(
G=f ) ) and agnostics do not commit themselves to believing in god.
(~BG) . In that sense atheists are true believers. You are confusing the
instance with the class. The fact that zero represents a null value does
not mean that its status as a number is nil. The fact that atheists
believe in zero god does not mean they do not believe in anything.

George
Received on Mon Jan 09 2006 - 00:36:34 PST