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Ophelia Benson counters a common and deeply misleading equivocation (one I counter often, but most specifically addressed here and here): Belief is about truth; it equates to”it is true that X”. It is thus cognitive rather than emotive. It seems odd to me to ask if it would be better to believe the things I [...]
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Disambiguating Belief
August 8th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke Disambiguating Faith: Why Faith Is Unethical (Or “In Defense Of The Ethical Obligation To Always Proportion Belief To Evidence”)
June 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke A couple of weeks ago, I argued that there was a real distinction between “lacking a belief in any God or gods” on the one hand and “believing there is no God (or gods)” on the other hand. Primarily I saw the heart of the distinction as resting with the difference between on the one [...]
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Tags: Agnostic Atheism, Agnostic Theism, Belief, Belief Apportioned To Evidence, Evolutionary Epistemology, Evolutionary Ethics, Gnostic Atheism, Gnostic Theism, Indirect Consequentialism, Moral Formalism, Moral Rationalism, Principle of Sufficient Reason, Rational Belief 
10 Comments »Distinguishing The Atheist Agnostic, The Theist Gnostic, The Atheist Gnostic, and The Theist Agnostic
October 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Peter Brietbart defines and schematizes distinctions between different kinds of atheists, theists, agnostics, and gnostics which have been growing in popularity in recent years. Rather than misleadingly defining atheists as exclusively those who claim to know there are no gods, theists as those who claim to know there is a god (or gods) and agnostics [...]
Posted in Atheism, Epistemology, Faith, Featured, God, Uncategorized Tags: Agnosticism, Atheist Agnostic, Atheist Gnostic, Belief, Deism, Gnosticism, Justified Belief, Peter Brietbart, theism, Theist Agnostic, Theist Gnostic, Unbelief 25 Comments »Some Preliminary Conceptual Distinctions Related To Belief And (Dis)Belief
October 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Spootmeister, a Camels With Hammers reader whose advice on videos has led to many a great find that we have been able to feature here, has finally produced his first video on atheism and theism. It’s an interesting video in which he tries to make several key distinctions between types of beliefs and types of [...]
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