brbubba
Underling
Your question may have far surpassed one's capabilities. That comment about 'all' in Spinoza's time was bad humor. But actually, if All means everything that exists, then 'exists' requires definition, keeping in mind Dopp's quote above of Tillich that "God does not exist." Tillich would say that 'God is.' 'Exist' puts on limits for God. Such discussion which will get into epistemology and theories of how we know anything will probably divert this thread.
From the perspective here, brbubba, your thread has been very worthwhile.
I was trying to make light of the fact that, if we so chose, we could deconstruct the entire english language. :angel2:
I think he left more from the fact that the thread seems to have been exhausted. We generally came to a conclusion/agreement that interpretations of underlying, base, concepts are so diverse that they don't properly convey the diversity of opinions. As such, it may be a better practice to use these base terms with modifiers to properly convey individual meaning.
Part of the difficulty in this thread is that so many sub topics cropped up which I had no way of foreseeing. Case in point was the discussion on the very meaning of atheism which I thought would have been a foregone conclusion. Oh well, the best laid plans...