Time for me to reread A Human’s Guide to Words, I suppose. But in my head and with Visiting Fellows folk I think I will continue to use an ontological language stolen from theism.
Just be careful of true believers that may condemn you for heresy for using the other tribe’s jargon! ;)
‘Worship’ or ‘Elder Rituals’ could not be reasonably construed as a relevant reply to your thread.
‘Worship’ or ‘Elder Rituals’ could not be reasonably construed as a relevant reply to your thread.
Eliezer is trying to define theism to mean religion, I think, so that atheism is still a defensible state of belief. I guess I’m okay with this, but it makes me sad to lose what I saw as a perfectly good word.
Just be careful of true believers that may condemn you for heresy for using the other tribe’s jargon! ;)
‘Worship’ or ‘Elder Rituals’ could not be reasonably construed as a relevant reply to your thread.
Eliezer is trying to define theism to mean religion, I think, so that atheism is still a defensible state of belief. I guess I’m okay with this, but it makes me sad to lose what I saw as a perfectly good word.
Strongly agree. Better to avoid synonyms when possible. ‘Simulationism’ is ugly and doesn’t seem sufficiently general in the way ‘theism’ does.