Posted by rpcman on June 17, 1998 at 16:57:10:
In Reply to: Agnosticism or Agnosticism? (Problem with following up rpcman post -- so I put post here) posted by Matt Berry on June 17, 1998 at 16:39:11:
...but in ordinary conversation, if I say that I am "agnostic" few people (except perhaps yourself) will understand that an affinity with the Socratic and original Buddhistic method is being expressed.
This is the crux of the problem with this word. No one knows what it means. Even those of us who think we do really don't have a clue how it is being used when someone else now says they are an agnostic. In real "ordinary conversations" people who say they are agnostic probably do so because they think it is some sort of middle ground between theism and atheism. I don't think it is as I explain on the page below.