ext_141763 ([identity profile] mendaciloquent.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] proximoception 2005-12-09 08:31 pm (UTC)

Well, this seems mostly right, except that God is a special case. The true appeal of agnosticism isn't that it gives any kind of credence to theistic claims, but that it doesn't deflate the truth value of scientific claims; in other words, agnosticism preserves the hard rationality that atheism ostensibly but somewhat ineptly uses as a foundation.

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