Z_M_Davis comments on Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Z_M_Davis 02 July 2009 05:09:18PM 4 points [-]

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?

A hypothesis: the people who coined the terminology didn't have this concept that you have, of probability theory as normative reasoning.