Unbeatable
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- Joined
- Dec 13, 2005
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- Basic Beliefs
- moral and existential nihilism, igtheism, dysteleology, pragmatic methodological naturalism
If I'm understanding you correctly, I think it may be Type 2 Gods that keep me from being comfortable with strong atheism. Those are the types which elude falsifiability, right? If so, I think I have to be agnostic about them.
You are agnostic about whether nothing is something? I would say that those are the class that is most easily dismissed. You don't need to prove that nothing is non-existent; non-existence is part of the definition.
I am agnostic about whether something indistinguishable from nothing is something. To say that something is indistinguishable from nothing is to make a statement about its appearance. But a statement about something's appearance is really just a statement about our own perceptions, our own ability to derive testable hypotheses from it. I am agnostic about the existence of things which elude our capacity to perceive them. One characteristic that seems to be shared by all types of gods except Type 3 is agency. I am agnostic about the existence of an agent which can actively hide from and sabotage our efforts to detect it.