tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post616768811147652518..comments2024-03-28T00:48:19.961-07:00Comments on Metacrock's Blog: Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-31540663594893443662016-07-15T12:34:35.650-07:002016-07-15T12:34:35.650-07:00One problem with relying on dictionaries (includin...<i>One problem with relying on dictionaries (including specialized disciplinary ones) is that such dictionaries need to pay attention to how words are, in fact, actually used.</i><br /><br />Um, that's what dictionaries do. That's how they arrive at the various definitions.<br /><br /><br />I have made comments on this <a href="http://theskepticzone.blogspot.com/2016/07/on-meaning-of-faith.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.im-skepticalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08267710618719895303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-74283580322030368602016-07-11T22:36:15.937-07:002016-07-11T22:36:15.937-07:00glad you like it. that gir loois exactly like one ...glad you like it. that gir loois exactly like one of my neices when she was 4Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-76711131138145420452016-07-09T14:59:12.962-07:002016-07-09T14:59:12.962-07:00Great pic!Great pic!Mike Gerowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14630695728013930638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-27606989312226189102016-07-08T06:33:10.834-07:002016-07-08T06:33:10.834-07:00One problem with relying on dictionaries (includin...One problem with relying on dictionaries (including specialized disciplinary ones) is that such dictionaries need to pay attention to how words are, in fact, actually used. It is only fair to complain about atheist uses of "faith" if it turns out that such uses depart from common uses of the term by theists. <br /><br /><br /><b>yea they do,I know that,I studied Greek I read the NT in Greek I know how words can differ from dictionary. Dictionaries only guides lines</b><br /><br />But in fact the term is used in all sorts of different ways.<br /><br /><b>yes that;s what i said atheists use it only one way,</b><br /><br /><br /> When apologists claim that atheists reject God on faith, how are they using the term? When a students says "I need to drop your Philosophy of Religion class because it's causing me to question my faith" how is the term being used? When someone responds to scientific evidence against a global flood by saying Well, I have faith in the Bible" how is the term being used?<br /><br /><b>any example you use is disproof of atheist rhetoric because the standard phrase is that faith is belief without reason, It;s broad rushy it;s universal almost all of these it straightway,</b><br /><br />On the other hand, though, I agree that it is unfair of atheists to assume that these kinds of uses of the term exhaust the field and that such assumptions sometimes form the basis of straw man arguments.<br /><br /><br /><b>by and lege ateists only use it one way as a pejorative.</b>Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-21296053260318053232016-07-07T15:09:41.750-07:002016-07-07T15:09:41.750-07:00One problem with relying on dictionaries (includin...One problem with relying on dictionaries (including specialized disciplinary ones) is that such dictionaries need to pay attention to how words are, in fact, actually used. It is only fair to complain about atheist uses of "faith" if it turns out that such uses depart from common uses of the term by theists. <br /><br />But in fact the term is used in all sorts of different ways. When apologists claim that atheists reject God on faith, how are they using the term? When a students says "I need to drop your Philosophy of Religion class because it's causing me to question my faith" how is the term being used? When someone responds to scientific evidence against a global flood by saying Well, I have faith in the Bible" how is the term being used?<br /><br />On the other hand, though, I agree that it is unfair of atheists to assume that these kinds of uses of the term exhaust the field and that such assumptions sometimes form the basis of straw man arguments.Eric Sotnakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06162425851889399481noreply@blogger.com