A new definition of Agnosticism...? (Introduction)

by romansh , Friday, June 22, 2012, 23:43 (4515 days ago) @ xeno6696

What I'm most interested in, is dhw's idea about the fact that one can be a theistic-agnostic or an atheist-agnostic. 
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I'd have to hear dhw's thoughts
but my take if we take a strong atheist definition - someone who believes any god does not exist then by just about any definition this person is an atheist. -The same person could turn around say but there is no way of showing conclusively that any god and therefore does not 'know' there is not a god.-Same way I might believe there might be life outside of the solar system in far off galaxies, I have no way of knowing this.-So the strong atheist might very atheistic in his personal views his philosophical view is quite agnostic. - Hence agnostic atheist.-Of course we may accuse this person of fideism but I would prefer to avoid this as I could also be very easily be guilty of fideism on some other subject.-Our definitions are our axioms and we build our logic and positions on these axioms