(July 30, 2016 at 6:10 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: Why does everyone act as if agnosticism is how a valid position on its own? Of course it isn't. We're all agnostics, but we're not merely agnostic, we're either atheist or theist agnostics.
It changes when you add the "-ism." This usually points to a systematic belief, rather than just a state. "Agnostic" literally just means "not knowing." But "agnosticism" means something like a doctrine or systematic position on not knowing-- it represents (or at least can represent) a world view, not just an answer to a question.
