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  Re: An example of confirmation bias?  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 11 Jul 2009 03:21:01
Message: <4a583d5d@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:38:32 +0200, andrel wrote:

> An agnost is someone who thinks that he *can* not know the answer to
> fundamental questions like the existence of one or more Gods. That is
> fundamentally different from someone who merely does not know, or
> doesn't care.

Well, yes and no.  It may be that we cannot know the answer to these 
questions, but the acknowledgment that one doesn't know (or doesn't care) 
is a type of manifestation of the same line of thinking, at least from my 
point of view.

Jim


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