Z_M_Davis comments on Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism - Less Wrong
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I have never understood the difference between weak and strong atheism. Either I think God probably exists or that he probably doesn't, but what's the difference between lack of belief in a proposition and a belief in its converse? Is it that, say, who thinks that God doesn't exist with p=0.8 is a weak atheist while with p=1-10^(-9) he would be a strong one? Or is a weak atheist only who has suspended judgement (what's the difference from an agnostic, then)?
A hypothesis: the people who coined the terminology didn't have this concept that you have, of probability theory as normative reasoning.