Thread by @SteveMcRae_

Aron Ra makes the extraordinary claim that philosopher Dr. Paul Draper's en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Drap…
peer reviewed paper in Stanford's Encyclopedia of Philosophy is wrong.

Will he be writing to SEP to inform him of his error as per his deep and profound expertise on the topic? 🙄

Aron Ra isn't even reading the paper correctly...Dr. Draper is defining atheism in terms of theism prepositionally, as the belief the proposition of theism is false.

It merely has the "added virtue" that it makes atheism a "direct answer" to the question "is there a God?"

"If you can't show it, you don't know it?"- Aron Ra's motto

I challenge Aron Ra to show Dr. Draper being wrong and submit it to SEP, or least put it up for philosophers in the community to review in blog as I put my ideas up in a blog. Aron Ra is merely making an assertion here.

Aron Ra is dishonestly trying to change the question of "Is there a God?"

Yes= Theist
No= Atheist

to "Do you believe in a god?" which is:

Yes=Theist
No= Not theist

He then prescriptively and semantically asserts by fiat that "not theist" = Atheist (akin to "Not odd"=Even).

This is completely intellectually dishonest and not a logical argument, but merely Aron Ra making up his own semantic rules and claiming them true regardless how these terms are actually used and understood by experts.

Know how many experts I can find that agree w/Aron?

ZERO

If you are a philosopher and agree with Aron that Dr. Draper is wrong (Aron provides no evidence for his claim), PLEASE contact me.

I would to talk to you about it!

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