What is the right definition of agnostic?

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I think the misunderstanding comes because someone who has no belief either way will typically say "I don't know". But this is technically an incorrect response, because you weren't asking what the person knows. They are really saying they "don't believe or disbelieve".

The only way that you could not know would be that you literally don't know what you actually believe. This would be a rare condition, where someone doesn't have direct access to their own opinions.

It's also further confused by people thinking "I don't believe in God" and "I believe there is no God" mean the same thing. They don't, as my website explains.