byrnema comments on Atheist or Agnostic? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: byrnema 19 April 2009 06:36:33PM -1 points [-]

Rather than argue with you, I am inclined to agree, but I'm not sure what to do next. When I read a statement such as, "This isn't groupthink; we really, truly have given full consideration to theistic claims and found them to be false." I'm not sure how to interpret it. Do you (I mean, should I) read it and assign some kind of "fuzzy" meaning?

Comment author: MrHen 19 April 2009 11:38:14PM 0 points [-]

The "theistic" in that sense is probably a wider definition intentionally. If someone came forward and said, "Well, what about this? This is not technically theism; it is X," my hunch is the community will say, "Well, we reject that, too."

So, yeah, fuzzy.