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Originally Posted by photon
No, because agnostic is about knowledge, from the greek gnosis. One can be a atheist agnostic, or a theist agnostic, because agnostic doesn't speak about one's beliefs, it speaks about one's position on knowledge about the existence of a god.
To the proposition: God Exists an atheist who is someone that does not say that that proposition is true. That includes both weak atheists who just say it isn't true, and strong atheists who say that it is false.
Agnostic and atheist measure different things, they're not points along a scale, they're different scales.
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Sorry, I never took a philosophy course, and, frankly, found purely philosophical writing/discourse boring. I was under the impression "agnostic" was one who was willing to admit that he didn't know. I was also under the impression that an athiest was sure that there was no god. That is wrong? Therefore, I am a "weak athiest" as opposed to an "agnostic"? Not trying to be smarmy - just curious if I've been operating with incorrect assumptions/definitions.