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Originally Posted by weateallthepies
What of someone unconsciously atheist like an infant? Does their atheism really equate to a belief that there is no god?
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No, I don't think so, since the infant may have no belief whatsoever in relation to god. That seems to be different from the case in which someone has contemplated the proposition, "there is a god", and concluded that the proposition is not true. For someone who knows the meaning of the proposition there seem to be only three possibilities in relation to it; it is true, it is false or...don't know. The first would be a theist, the second would be an atheist and I'm not sure what to make of the third, since I expect someone who claimed they did not know would actually behave as though they thought the proposition to be true or to be false.