wedrifid comments on Theists are wrong; is theism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 20 January 2011 07:48:57PM *  0 points [-]

Time for me to reread A Human's Guide to Words, I suppose. But in my head and with Visiting Fellows folk I think I will continue to use an ontological language stolen from theism.

Just be careful of true believers that may condemn you for heresy for using the other tribe's jargon! ;)

'Worship' or 'Elder Rituals' could not be reasonably construed as a relevant reply to your thread.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 20 January 2011 08:05:59PM 5 points [-]

'Worship' or 'Elder Rituals' could not be reasonably construed as a relevant reply to your thread.

Eliezer is trying to define theism to mean religion, I think, so that atheism is still a defensible state of belief. I guess I'm okay with this, but it makes me sad to lose what I saw as a perfectly good word.

Comment author: Jack 20 January 2011 08:11:52PM *  3 points [-]

Strongly agree. Better to avoid synonyms when possible. 'Simulationism' is ugly and doesn't seem sufficiently general in the way 'theism' does.

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