Can Someone be Simply "An Agnostic?"
June 18, 2014 at 3:19 am
(This post was last modified: June 18, 2014 at 3:26 am by Rampant.A.I..)
I'd like to know: if agnosticism isn't a tenable position, why does ignosticism exist as a concept?
Is it possible to be opposed to irrational beliefs, and be actively critical in order to avoid them?
Is a belief for or against a proposition for which tenable evidence for or against is impossible, strictly rational?
If we can agree knowledge is a justified true belief, and beliefs are independent of knowledge; no matter how strongly a belief is held it only qualifies as knowledge if it is justified, is it strictly rational to hold beliefs for which justification is impossible?
Is it possible to be opposed to irrational beliefs, and be actively critical in order to avoid them?
Is a belief for or against a proposition for which tenable evidence for or against is impossible, strictly rational?
If we can agree knowledge is a justified true belief, and beliefs are independent of knowledge; no matter how strongly a belief is held it only qualifies as knowledge if it is justified, is it strictly rational to hold beliefs for which justification is impossible?