Re: OT: agnosticism

John:
> And Rosta scripsit:
>
> > I can't bear to be agnostic about stuff. It makes me feel as though
> > I don't know anything.
>
> Well, yeah, that's what the word *means*, /di:ju::d/.
!SAMCC [Sitting at my computer chuckling]

What I mean is, so long as one had enough evidence to form an
opinion, form an opinion, however flimsily it is thus founded.
So I have no opinion about whether Altaic is a valid genetic
entity, but on first learning that OJ had been arrested for
murder by the LAPD, I formed the opinion that he was innocent.

> > I much prefer to embrace a position fervently
> > and be prepared to immediately abandon it for another as soon as a
> > better position comes along.
>
> "I am dogmatic about what I know, and skeptical about what I don't."
>         --one of Ray Smullyan's philosophical-fictional interlocutors
Are those _what_s interrogative or relative? [Or is the ambiguity
an intentional part of the meaning?]

--And.

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