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Thanks again, folks, for your response.
The reason for the preamble (postamble?) to my question is that I wanted to avoid a flood of replies that would, one way and another, merely tell me that an agnostic is someone who doesn�t know whether God exists. Since no-one on this planet can possibly have that knowledge, such a definition isn�t sufficient to distinguish an agnostic from the other 7000 million people on earth � despite jake-the-peg�s attempt to do so!
My ploy wasn�t particularly successful. That �don�t know� definition, in one form or another, is given with commendable briefness by naomi, Le Chat, bensmum, josie�s daughter, Jugglering and Postdog, and more long-windedly by Octavius and Esthmer (who also, puzzlingly, gives us a definition of �theist� that I think we all knew).
mib tells us that he is one of those who do know but, tantalisingly, doesn�t tell us what it is that he knows. brionon ignores the fact that we know what �agnostic� means in English. Clanad ignores the question and tries to restart that old chestnut about not being able to prove the nonexistence of God. Russell�s china teapot to you, Clanad. (And how can a mouth be pixillated, assuming that that�s the word you intended?)
I am now even more convinced that, in a world of universal non-knowledge on the subject, we define ourselves by our decisions. [AB never gives us the 2000 characters it promises, so I will pause here�