• texture@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    respectfully, your edit made it even more clear that you are misunderstanding the context and meaning of the terms in this case. agnostic / gnostic atheism needent necessarily have anything to do with gnosticism as a general term.

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      2 months ago

      True enough, but even still I don’t see that “gnostic atheism” is obviously the opposite of “agnostic atheism”. In any case it’s not what I claimed. The terminology is confusing and I was hoping to be helpful, although I see now I was far too glib.

      https://hmolpedia.com/page/Gnostic_atheist

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        2 months ago

        right, one type of atheism and another type of atheism arent “opposites” and no one said they were.

        the prefix in question and how it functions in this case are indeed opposites. one is a position of certainty about the topic, and one is a position of a lack of that certainty.