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The website AllAboutPhilosophy.com declares concerning '''agnostic beliefs''':
The website AllAboutPhilosophy.com declares concerning '''agnostic beliefs''':
Cquote|'''Agnostic Religion: Views and Viewpoints'''
There are two basic forms of agnosticism. Weak Agnosticism holds that God is unknown. It accepts that God may be known, and some people may possibly know God. The second form, Strong Agnosticism, maintains that God is unknowable, that God cannot be known.
There is an additional breakdown of views on the ability to know God. Limited agnosticism says that God is partially unknown because of our finitude. This view holds that we can know some things about God, but we cannot know everything. Unlimited agnosticism claims that God is completely unknowable. That is, its impossible to truly know anything about God.
'''Agnostic Religion: Views of Reality'''
The agnostic views about the existence of God stem from views about the ability to know reality. These views of reality were most strongly advocated by David Hume and Immanuel Kant. David Hume was technically a skeptic, but his views led to agnosticism. One of his main ideas was that everything we experience is totally separate and unconnected. The cause-and-effect relationships that we observe can never really be known with any certainty. Instead, Hume thought, causal relationships are based solely on observation, and we see causality as we link events that occur together.
[[Immanuel Kant]] was greatly influenced by the ideas of Hume. Kant held that knowledge is provided by experience through the senses. The conclusion is that we can never know actual reality as it truly is if we are dependent on our senses. We can only know something as we experience it in ourselves. Since everyone experiences the same event differently, we can never know the event as it actually happened outside of ourselves.
The views of Hume and Kant impact a persons views about God. If we cannot know reality as it actually is, then we really cant even know events as they are independent of our senses. Also we cant really know the true causes of any given event if everything is unconnected. With this in mind, therefore, the agnostic claims he does actually know the possible Cause of the Universe. Hence, for the agnostic, Gods existence is in question.<ref>[http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/agnostic-religion-faq.htm Agnostic religion]</ref>}}
== Types of agnosticism ==
== Types of agnosticism ==