Indeed. I tried for at least half an hour to formulate this clearly... always coming up short.
Finally I thought to myself: "Wait a minute, maybe someone's already tried to say this", and indeed someone has... quite clearly.
Just for the record, I'd planned to say something like:
First of all... there's two ways that I can think that "I don't know that God exists", and mean it.
One: I don't know that God exists, because I know the opposite. That is, I know
God doesn't exist.Two: I don't know that God exists, because I don't know anything about God's existance, one way or the other.
The only way that God can "be in a place I don't know about" is if the second alternative is true.
That means the statement "God can be in a a place you don't know about" is directly dependant on me not knowing that God doesn't exist. This in turn means your argument turns into, "You can't know God doesn't exist, because you don't know God doesn't exist."
Pretty circular, no?
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