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Can any athiest answer the most basic of all philosophical Qs:
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Truth is what matches such a theory; error is what contradicts it. Fact is something that can be experimentally verified; fiction is something that cannot. Reality is the entity the theory describes; delusion is everything that does not fit under this entity.
I do not think this really depends on whether the person is an atheist or a theist: everybody does that. It is the rigor in categorizing and analyzing the incoming data that differs between individuals, and separates those who live in tune with the objective reality, from those who live in tune with some imagined reality that only has some degree of intersection with the objective reality.
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"I think, therefore I am". My brain interprets the sensory data the way it does, and I make conclusions based on that. I cannot possibly know any more than that. Maybe I am plugged into a Matrix and all my perceptions are simulated. Or maybe I live in a simulated world where a bored programmer pulls my strings. The best I can do is to make the most out of the data I have; the assumption that this data in itself is an illusion would simply mean that any cognition of the world is impossible, and this is not a philosophical stance I want to take.
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A rational person understands the reality around them and does not claim to know more than they do. An irrational person believes that something is real based on it being written in an old book and nothing else.
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I will just respond to this dismissal with an edited quote from Socrates which sometimes is attributed to him:
"I know that I know nothing. You do not know even that."
Much to learn you still have, Padawan.
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