OT: agnosticism

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/.

> 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

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter

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