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:“There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can’t prove that there aren’t any, so shouldn’t we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”.
:“There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can’t prove that there aren’t any, so shouldn’t we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”.
An agnostic is on the fence regarding the truth value of certain unverifiable claims. It can be said that an agnostic thinks that there's about a 50-50 chance of a claim being true. For example, if you asked me if it's going to rain in a week, I'd say I was agnostic. I just don't know, but it's definitely likely and possible. It's rained before and it will probably rain again. I've observed it many times so it's a reasonable conclusion that it ''may'' rain next week.
An agnostic is on the fence regarding the truth value of certain unverifiable claims. It can be said that an agnostic thinks that there's about a 50-50 chance of a claim being true. For example, if you asked me if it's going to rain in a week, I'd say I was agnostic. I just don't know, but it's definitely likely and possible. It's rained before and it will probably rain again. I've observed it many times so it's a reasonable conclusion that it ''may'' rain next week.
A full on atheist evaluates an individual claims on its face. If it seems arbitrary, then he/she is an atheist about it. If it's likely, but not easily verified, then he/she's agnostic. And if it's based on something that resonates with common sense or has been consistently true in the past, then he/she has ''faith'' that it'll probably be true in the future.
A full on atheist evaluates an individual claims on its face. If it seems arbitrary, then he/she is an atheist about it. If it's likely, but not easily verified, then he/she's agnostic. And if it's based on something that resonates with common sense or has been consistently true in the past, then he/she has ''faith'' that it'll probably be true in the future.
==References==
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