RE: Agnostic: a pointless term?
January 31, 2015 at 12:29 pm
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2015 at 12:33 pm by YGninja.)
(January 31, 2015 at 12:11 pm)robvalue Wrote: Did you read the article? You can believe a statement without having to claim that you know it is true. Knowledge is a subset of belief. I believe a ball will fall when I drop it, but I don't know it.
I would make exactly the same arguments against that article as i am here. Again they are trying to define the meaning of a word directly from its etymology, rather than how it was originally and always has been used. Its not a scholarly article, its just a weak apologetic. No reasonable person calls themselves a gnostic atheist or theist because all we have are beliefs to varying degrees of certainty. The idea of a gnostic atheist or theist only came about by these sorts of apologetics, trying to protect atheists from any BOP, so on one hand they can wear t-shirts with various religious symbols spelling "fiction", and on the other they can get away with producing absolutely no argument against Gods existence.
