Can Someone be Simply "An Agnostic?"

[Ravenshire]

To me the whole agnostic concept is loaded with theistic presuppositions. I think it gives to much credence to god claims. If I'm open to the possibility there could be a 'god' who is always just out of sight (or more fundamentally unprovable) I'm basically open to anything. I could be a brain in a vat for instance.

Trusting reality to be as real as we can detect seems the only pragmatic way to go to me.

Being open to things and giving them credence are two different things. We may all be brains in vats, or worse, batteries for our machine overlords. Or we may be part of a computer simulation running on an alien nerd's laptop. These are things that, if given sufficient evidence, I could be convinced to believe, but I give them no credence because there is no evidence that we live anywhere but a material universe.