(December 9, 2022 at 10:49 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:(December 8, 2022 at 11:42 am)Ahriman Wrote: I think of agnosticism as unnecessary fence sitting, it's easy enough to know there isn't a God, why not just own the belief/fact that there isn't a God?
You can be an agnostic atheist (don't know, don't believe) or an agnostic theist (don't know, believe anyway).
All atheists and theists alike are agnostic (don't know) so in the interest of parsimony we just cancel out the extraneous terms on both sides of the equation.