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    Supports→There is no contradiction involved in denying that God exists.

    A genuine logical contradiction requires that affirming and denying the same proposition simultaneously be unintelligible, but atheism is historically intelligible and coherently statable.

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    Key Terms

    Affirming and denying(as used in logic)
    Claiming something is true (affirming) versus claiming it is false (denying)—the two opposite positions on any statement.
    Atheism(as the main subject of the statement)
    The belief that God does not exist, or the lack of belief in any god.
    Coherently statable(as used in logic)
    Able to be expressed in a clear, consistent way without breaking its own internal logic.
    Logical contradiction(as what the stratified framework avoids)
    When two statements cannot both be true at the same time because they directly oppose each other. For example, 'it is raining' and 'it is not raining' are contradictory.
    intelligible(describing the noumenal self)

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    Able to be understood or known through reason and thought, rather than through our five senses.
    proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
    The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.
    unintelligible(as describing what would happen to Baumgarten's theory without this distinction)
    Impossible to understand or make sense of; completely unclear or contradictory.

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