Though he adopted conventional moral ideas, Protagoras expressed his agnostic attitude toward belief in the gods in Concerning the Gods.
There was a genuine desire to recover the critical, questioning, and agnostic attitude of the Socrates of Plato's early dialogues as well as philosophical exasperation with the dogmatism of some of the contemporary Hellenistic philosophers, especially the Stoics.
(Incidentally, an agnostic attitude on these issues is traditionally signalled by the journalist sticking to the transsexual's name and finding ingenious and supercilious ways of not using the male or female pronoun. I can't be bothered with it).
But maintaining market leadership, while easy when the field of competitors is small, will become impossible as rivals flood the market with their own innovations and an agnostic attitude about what works with what.
For in another fragment Timon (very unusually among ancient commentators) praises Protagoras for his agnostic attitude towards the gods.
The antirealism of the position is due entirely to its epistemology it recommends belief in our best theories only insofar as they describe observable phenomena, and an agnostic attitude with respect to anything unobservable.
In spite of a pre-reflective disposition toward dualism, an explicit argument for an agnostic attitude with respect to the ultimate constitution of reality, thus a form of epistemological idealism without any argument for ontological idealism, is also characteristic of John Locke (1632 1704).
And we extend this agnostic attitude to our entire service — porn, yes, but also other potentially controversial activities, ranging from political activism and protest organizing, to circumvention of censorship regimes, through to extreme cases like smuggled videos of human rights abuses in totalitarian societies.
In fact, where there is insufficient evidence to attribute any one set of internal edges to the line of vertical descent, we do not consider an agnostic attitude to be a problem.
