Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature... of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. Rather--speaking loosely and without trying to answer either Pilate's question or Tarski's--a version is to be taken to be true when it offends no unyielding beliefs and none of its own precepts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about th...e ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith. Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »