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Old 09-21-2010, 06:48 AM   #129
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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?
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.

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