My Fellow Specifically Agnostic Atheists

[Purple Rabbit]

I may be deluded here but EvF stopped answering and immediatly Void takes over crediting him with kudos, Void stops answering and 'the boss' steps right in. I sincerely apologize if this has only been in the eye of me as a beholder.

Actually I do believe I replied last, I was expecting a response from you and then you and Adrian got involved.

I said this last directly under your last post to me:

Ok....... lol.

Well I mean agnostic in the sense of not claiming absolute knowledge, gnostic in the sense of positively claiming absolute knowledge. I believed these were the original meanings of the terms, if I'm wrong then fine I'm wrong, but it's a meaning.

I don't claim to have absolute knowledge of God's non-existence (because I can't have it), so that's why I don't do so... and why I'm agnostic.

EvF

The matter already has been settled. Everybody has hugged and shaken hands already. Let's leave it at that.

As for your post: Agnosticism has no definite meaning and pretty much every atheistic hide-out on the internet testifies about that. To choose your own specific meaning or interpretation to the label is fine by me but the label alone is not enough to unambiguously accurate describe your position. Agnosticism is not by definition free from absolute claims. The fundamental unknowability position that makes an absolute claim is a possible philosophical position to take (though arguably not a valid position) and is not excluded from common and accepted definitions of agnosticism. For more information on the ins and outs of this, see my last post to Adrian.