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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (482814)	5/22/2009 2:09:26 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575955

I'm arguing definitions based on the primary usage of the main terms. People have come up with secondary and combination definitions and terms, as I said near the beginning of this conversation "atheism is sometimes used to indicate a lack of any belief", but the point is "but doing so unnecessarily muddles things. You already have a term for a lack of belief, agnosticism. If you expand atheism to include a lack of belief than you have to come up with sub categories like "strong atheism" or "explicit atheism". Its simpler to just use atheism for the belief of the negative in terms of divine beings and agnosticism for uncertainty, and that's also the most common usage."