 | | Re: Santorum Fails In His Effort To Pervert The Constitution —David Eaton
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| | | (...) I definitely agree-- to be agnostic is really to be undecided. And if you really simply "don't believe in God", but *would* if given sufficient reason, then I'd say agnostic matches pretty well. (...) Hmmm. Not really. I guess I see a (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Santorum Fails In His Effort To Pervert The Constitution —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) Not the way I understand what an agnostic is. An agnostic holds that the ultimate truth about God existing or not existing is not knowable. That's not undecided, though many undecided people misuse the term "agnostic" to describe themselves. (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Santorum Fails In His Effort To Pervert The Constitution —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | (...) For the sake of a disclaimer I should probably underscore that my use of "undecided" in this context was to address a popular connotation of the word agnostic, rather than a literal denotation. Dave! (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Santorum Fails In His Effort To Pervert The Constitution —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | (...) You mean that you understand the correct and incorrect usage but are willfully contributing to the further incorrect usage? ;-) 00>Bruce<01 (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Santorum Fails In His Effort To Pervert The Constitution —David Eaton
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| | | | (...) Huh! I guess I've never really investigated the meaning; rather I've just gone by how people use it (which, for philosophic terms, I'm more inclined to doing anyway, and reject outright whatever a dictionary says if it tells me differently (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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