I think this needs to take the social aspect into account more. People care a lot about labeling differences like “will this person say I’m wrong,” even if the people so labeled have nigh-identical probability assignments.
Are you talking about the kind of self-described agnostic who does think that God and invisible fairies have the same likelihood of existing? In that case, yeah, I think its a bit pointless to call themselves agnostics.
I think this needs to take the social aspect into account more. People care a lot about labeling differences like “will this person say I’m wrong,” even if the people so labeled have nigh-identical probability assignments.
Are you talking about the kind of self-described agnostic who does think that God and invisible fairies have the same likelihood of existing? In that case, yeah, I think its a bit pointless to call themselves agnostics.
Well, but there is a point—a social point, and it labels pretty well their interactions with people about religion.