Types of Atheism
- Positive atheism – the form of atheism that asserts there is no deity. Also called "strong atheism".
- Explicit atheism – "the absence of theistic belief due to a conscious rejection of it".
- Negative atheism – refers to any type of non-theism other than positive atheism, wherein a person does not believe in the existence of any deity, but without asserting there to be none. Also called "weak atheism".
- Implicit atheism – "the absence of theistic belief without a conscious rejection of it".
- Agnostic atheism – philosophical position that encompasses both atheism and agnosticism. Agnostic atheists are atheistic because they do not hold a belief in the existence of any deity and agnostic because they claim that the existence of a deity is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.
- Implicit atheism – "the absence of theistic belief without a conscious rejection of it".
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