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Agnostic beliefs

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/* Norman Geisler on unlimited/complete agnosticism */
[[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] [[Norman Geisler]] wrote on complete agnosticism:
{{cquote|Complete agnosticism is self-defeating; it reduces to the self-destructing assertion that "one knows enough about [[reality]] in order to affirm that nothing can be known about reality." This statement provides within itself all that is necessary to [[falsify]] itself. For if one knows something about reality, then he surely cannot affirm in the same breath that all of reality is unknowable. And of course if one knows nothing whatsoever about reality, then he has no basis whatsoever for making a statement about reality. It will not suffice to say that his knowledge about reality is purely and completely negative, that is, a knowledge of what one cannot meaningfully affirm that something is not – that it follows that total agnosticism is self-defeating because it assumes some knowledge about reality in order to deny any knowledge of reality (Geisler, Apologetics, p. 20).<ref>http://www.greatcom.org/resources/secular_religions/ch01/default.htm</ref>}}
 
== See also ==
 
*[[Definitions of Atheist and Agnostic|Definitions of atheist and agnostic]]
*[[History of agnosticism]]
*[[Schools of atheist thought]]
*[[Atheist factions]]
*[[Denials that atheists exist]]
*[[Atheists doubting the validity of atheism]]
== Notes ==
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[[Category:Agnosticism]]
[[Category: Agnosticism]]