Agnostics

[bennyboy]

But my question isn't "Is the cat alive or dead?"  I'm not asking you to pick between two possibilities, I'm specifically asking you about your position on the claim "The cat is alive."  I'm not even concerned about the cat's "dead" status in this question.  If you need that to be clarified each time, that's fine, but you've already given you answer to this question previously.

"Do you believe the cat is alive?"  You said "No."  That's all the answer I was looking for - nothing about the possibility of gaining knowledge about the cat, or even about the possibility of the cat's 'dead' status.

It's a strange situation, to have such a symmetrical situation presented in such an asymmetrical way. In this case, an alive cat is not dead and vice versa. Couching it in skewing language seems a bit devious-- My real belief is that the cat is maybe dead, maybe alive-- in fact, I'm a very strong gnostic deadalive-ist. Much more interesting than my answer is your motivation-- why are you trying to make me comment on whether a coin will come up heads, but demanding that I avoid any discussion of whether it will come up tails? I mean, if you really want to do it this way you can. . . when I have to answer your question. But when I'm declaring, of my own volition, my own religious beliefs, I get to ask much more fair questions than that.