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Agnostics may claim that it isn't possible to have absolute or certain spiritual knowledge or, alternatively, that while certainty may be possible, they personally have no such knowledge. In both cases, agnosticism involves some form of skepticism towards religious statements. This is different from the simple irreligion of those who give no thought to the subject.
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Yeah, yeah, it's Wikipedia, but it works. An agnostic theist believes, but does not claim to
know there is a god, like an agnostic atheist doesn't claim to know there is no god. Still, none of them are neutral on the subject of the existence of the divine.
But I think we've just got a definition thing going on here, where I was thinking of agnosticism as a gradation of another term describing one's take on theism (small-a), while I guess everybody else has standalone Agnosticism (big-A) in mind. It's a tricky word.