Folks,

I would like to offer a modest thesis regarding the Agnostic, suggesting that we might better serve the Agnostic by using the word as a noun rather than an adjective before another noun.

Here it is:

Question – Do you know that the statement ‘There is God’ is true?

Dworkin – No.

Question – Do you know that the statement ‘There is no God’ is true?

Dworkin – No.

Question – Do you believe that the statement ‘There is God’ is true?

Dworkin – No.

Question – Do you believe that the statement ‘There is no God’ is true?

Dworkin – No.

We will see from the above that the words ‘know’ and ‘believe’ are interchangeable in the questions and this has no effect on the answers.

A conclusion on Dworkin’s position is therefore clear. This is what I will call the ‘Agnostic third way’.

D.

PS – I’m obviously open to objections and there is no criticism implied of other and different positions such as the Theist or the Atheist, the Agnostic Theist or Agnostic Atheist.