(April 3, 2015 at 9:56 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: Atheism / theism is a confession of what you claim to believe
Agnosticism / gnosticism is a confession of what you claim to know.
I do not understand why you partition "belief" and "knowledge" this way. "Belief" is not "blind faith without evidence"; it's a very normal and everyday intellectual phenomenon: an assent to a proposition.
Further, knowledge is often defined (not entirely correctly, but that's beyond the scope of this discussion) as justified true belief. Knowledge and belief are not independent of each other. One cannot know P without giving mental assent to, i.e., without extending belief to, P.
