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Ayer believes that
{ 1 } - there is a God.
{ 2 } - there is no God.
{ 3 } - "There is a God" is nonsensical -- and thus neither true nor false.
{ 4 } - maybe there is a God and maybe there is no God -- the human mind cannot know which alternative is the correct one.
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Ayer believes that
{ 1 } - there is a God.
{ 2 } - there is no God.
{ 3 } - "There is a God" is nonsensical -- and thus neither true nor false.
{ 4 } - maybe there is a God and maybe there is no God -- the human mind cannot know which alternative is the correct one.
Yeah, and I bet you think he was a Jesuit?
Ayer thought that "There is a God" is nonsensical -- since it's neither analytic nor empirical.
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Ayer believes that
{ 1 } - there is a God.
{ 2 } - there is no God.
{ 3 } - "There is a God" is nonsensical -- and thus neither true nor false.
{ 4 } - maybe there is a God and maybe there is no God -- the human mind cannot know which alternative is the correct one.
Ayer thought that "There is no God" is nonsensical -- since it's neither analytic nor empirical.
The traditional atheist believes that there is no God. So Ayer wasn't a traditional atheist.
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Ayer believes that
{ 1 } - there is a God.
{ 2 } - there is no God.
{ 3 } - "There is a God" is nonsensical -- and thus neither true nor false.
{ 4 } - maybe there is a God and maybe there is no God -- the human mind cannot know which alternative is the correct one.
Ayer thought that "There is a God" and "There is no God" are both nonsensical -- since neither is analytic or empirical.
So Ayer wasn't a traditional theist, or a traditional atheist, or a traditional agnostic.
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Ayer believes that
{ 1 } - there is a God.
{ 2 } - there is no God.
{ 3 } - "There is a God" is nonsensical -- and thus neither true nor false.
{ 4 } - maybe there is a God and maybe there is no God -- the human mind cannot know which alternative is the correct one.
Ayer thought that both views are nonsensical -- since neither is analytic or empirical.
The traditional agnostic believes that the existence of God is a legitimate question -- either there is a God or there isn't -- but that we cannot know the answer. So Ayer wasn't a traditional agnostic.
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