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Originally Posted by TGS
So is the difference between atheist and an agnostic that the former would say something like, there is nothing I have experienced, and there is nothing I could possibly experience, that would cause me to believe in the existence of god, whilst the latter might say there is nothing that I have experienced so far, though I remain open to the possibility that in the future there could be such an experience, that causes me to believe in the existence of god?
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I'd say that those were definitions of strong atheism vs weak atheism. An agnostic would say that the existence or non-existence of God was inherently unknowable.
Graham