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Originally Posted by photon
No, agnosticism is a position on knowledge, athesim is a position on belief.
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You say that like it's an un-controvertible fact. That's one way of defining those two terms, but only one.
Most sources cited on Wikipedia for Atheism and Agnosticism agree that the common usages of the terms agree with my explanation, and, IMO, do a better job of encapsulating and distinguishing the respective ideas.
It's unnecessarily bookish and doctrinal to insist that Atheism only means X, particularly when doing so just forces you to come up with subcategories of atheism which then need explaining in order to provide the important differentiation that the common usages provide.