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Watch this space for thoughts on atheism from a logicist's perspective. I will only say here that I depart from the Urban Dictionary definition of  logical atheist  as a person who "states there is insufficient evidence to state that no god(s) exist or that they do not believe a god(s) exist. Instead the Logical Atheist simply says, 'There isn't enough evidence to support or deny the existence of a god(s).'" That sort of atheist would better be termed an evidentialist  atheist , that is, an atheist whose lack of belief is evidence-based, but who thinks that the absence of evidence is not in itself evidence of absence. (I agree with that, by the way.) In contrast, I use logical atheist  for an atheist (like myself) who says: "On the basis of logic (identity, non-contradiction, and excluded middle), I affirmatively believe that no supernatural realm or being exists or could possibly exist . Therefore, we never reach the point where the theist would be ask