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Wade 1 year, 4 months ago.
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@Richard I’m sorry I wasn’t more clear. I meant that my family (who mostly consider themselves atheists) essentially say that about the categories of belief–not that that’s actually what I think. I know agnostics are not in spiritual limbo; that’s just what I was taught growing up.
I prefer the 2-dimensional orthogonal representation of theism-atheism and Gnosticism-agnosticism. In this a definition theismatheism is about what you believe and gnosticism-agnosticism is a out what you claim to know. Think if a plot with a belief axis going from full atheist to full theists. The other axis represents claims of knowledge going from agnostic to gnostic. It would be posible to be anywhere on the plot. With this definition, someone fully agnostic could be at various points along the belief axis.
Jeff, that’s really interesting! I’d never realised that Agnostics and Gnostics were on the same axis (duh!).
Wade.
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