Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Can you be an “agnostic atheist,” or are those terms mutually exclusive? I try to explain how the famous four-quadrant graph misunderstands the nature of belief, knowledge, and agnosticism.

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Joe Schmid on Agnosticism and Justification youtube.com/watch?v=YTsSW7UeZpY&t=212s

Gettier and knowledge with Kane B and Cole Nasrallah youtube.com/watch?v=FZmHAuTBGpo

What is knowledge? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/#WhatKnow

The Analysis of Knowledge https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/

Graham Oppy - Atheism: The Basics amazon.com/Atheism-Basics-Graham-Oppy/dp/1138506966

transcript emersongreenblog.wordpress.com/2021/04/22/what-the-agnostic-atheist-graph-gets-wrong

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00:00 - 00:50 intro
00:51 - 04:12 agnosticism
04:13 - 05:05 belief
05:06 - 07:05 Kane B on belief and knowledge
07:06 - 09:12 knowledge and JTB
09:13 - 11:42 more on certainty, belief, and making claims
11:43 - 13:29 more on "agnostic atheism"
13:30 - 14:24 the Dawkins Scale
14:25 - 15:07 final thoughts