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I would like to describe myself as a Fortean but I think I am too stupid, lazy and my interest too casual. It, it seems, is quite a demanding discipline. How about describing myself as an agnostic?...
agnostic n.
1. a person who holds that knowledge of a Supreme Being, ultimate cause, etc., is impossible.
2. A person who claims, with respect to any particular question, that the answer cannot be known with certainty... [C19: coined 1869 by T. H. Huxley]
-Collins Concise Dictionary.
Do I detect a bit of conflict between those two definitions? Either knowledge of a Supreme Being, ultimate cause, etc., is known with certainty to be impossible or the answer to that particular question cannot be known with certainty, which is it?
-J
agnostic n.
1. a person who holds that knowledge of a Supreme Being, ultimate cause, etc., is impossible.
2. A person who claims, with respect to any particular question, that the answer cannot be known with certainty... [C19: coined 1869 by T. H. Huxley]
-Collins Concise Dictionary.
Do I detect a bit of conflict between those two definitions? Either knowledge of a Supreme Being, ultimate cause, etc., is known with certainty to be impossible or the answer to that particular question cannot be known with certainty, which is it?
-J