Agnostics

[bennyboy]

I don't understand.  If you're agnostic about everything, how can you take such firm positions?

To be consistent with your expressed skepticism, shouldn't "I find it hard, in fact, to see how any serious philosophical-minded person could be more than an agnostic, with regard to God or actually to almost anything else," really be more like, "Sometimes I think I wonder whether I find it hard, in fact, to see how any serious philosophical-minded person could be more than an agnostic, with regard to God or actually to almost anything else." 

Extreme skepticism seems to me a self-defeating position.

I claim gnosticism on two counts: 1) on the existence of my mind; 2) on my general lack of knowledge about anything else.