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To: TimF who wrote (482819)	5/22/2009 2:18:29 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (2) of 1575988

This is a case where the common usage is wrong, or at least different than the philosophical meaning. Atheism is simply "without belief in god." Agnosticism isn't about belief, it's about knowledge: en.wikipedia.org Agnosticism (Greek: a- a-, without + ???s?? gnosis, knowledge; after Gnosticism) is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly metaphysical claims regarding theology, afterlife or the existence of deities, spiritual-beings, or even ultimate reality — is unknown or, depending on the form of agnosticism, inherently impossible to prove or disprove. Many atheists and theists are not agnostic, they believe it is knowable whether or not god exists, and they argue their cases all the time. But that doesn't change the fact that they are not three mutually exclusive terms. SD

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