What is agnosticism?
(Continued from Page 1) Philosophically, agnosticism can be described as being based upon two separate principles. The first principle is epistemological in that it relies upon empirical and logical means for acquiring knowledge about the world. The second principle is moral in that it insists that we have an ethical duty not to assert claims for ideas which we cannot adequately support either through evidence or logic. So, if a person cannot claim to know, or at least know for sure, if any gods exist, then they may properly use the term agnostic to describe themselves; at the same time, this person likely insists that it would be wrong on some level to claim that gods either definitely do or definitely don t exist. This is the ethical dimension of agnosticism, arising from the idea that a strong atheism or strong theism is simply not justified by what we currently know. Although we now have an idea of what such a person knows or th
