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Originally Posted by Deckard
Andrea - God as a synonym for "the unknown" is a good point, and the history of mankind - with an ever-retreating/less interacting God - makes that painfully apparent.
A nice claim to fame btw. Yes it could be genetics or memetics or coincidence - there's plenty there to choose from! Was your father particularly creative or musical?
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Oh no, not at all. Believe it or not, my father was a dental technician
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Originally Posted by Deckard
It's common to mistake the two statements "I believe X does not exist" and "I do not believe X exists" as being one and the same. Both appear very similar, but in fact the first is a hypothesis, and the second is a rejection of a (different) hypothesis. As such, it's my view that those who use the statements interchangeably will find that they are either:
(1) taking a looser definition of the word 'believe' than I am
(2) or committing a logical error.
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I would like to add:
(3) or speaking a different language
Is "I believe X does not exist" grammatically correct? However I try to translate the two, "I believe X does not exist" and "I do not believe X exists", to Swedish or Hungarian I get the same sentence. In both cases it starts with "I do not believe..."