I'm sorry. I'm apparently failing to make my question clear.
I'm not making any kind of assertion about whether the state of my mind affects the world. That's why I added the "deluded or otherwise" clause. And I'm certainly not positing any particular mechanism whereby that might occur, supposing that it does, be it quantum-mechanical or otherwise.
You started out by asserting that a particular activity (prayer) was unavailable to a particular class of people (agnostics).
What I have been trying to establish was whether you meant that in a relatively trivial semantic way (along the lines of "agnostics can do the same kind of thing but one cannot properly call it 'prayer', we must use some other word") or in a meaningful real-world way (along the lines of "agnostics cannot do the same kind of thing").
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Date: 2005-02-07 12:18 pm (UTC)I'm not making any kind of assertion about whether the state of my mind affects the world. That's why I added the "deluded or otherwise" clause. And I'm certainly not positing any particular mechanism whereby that might occur, supposing that it does, be it quantum-mechanical or otherwise.
You started out by asserting that a particular activity (prayer) was unavailable to a particular class of people (agnostics).
What I have been trying to establish was whether you meant that in a relatively trivial semantic way (along the lines of "agnostics can do the same kind of thing but one cannot properly call it 'prayer', we must use some other word") or in a meaningful real-world way (along the lines of "agnostics cannot do the same kind of thing").