Most specifically, an agnostic doesn't believe nor disbelieve in God. For some(many?) agnostics, this also may include not believing or disbelieving in anything and basing everything on rationality. But there are many varieties of people claiming to be agnostic and agnostic doesn't necessarily mean the idealizing of rationality above all else.
As for me, I don't actively believe or disbelieve in ghosts. On the other hand, I had an experience as a child that I interpreted as being a ghost. I don't deny nor affirm this childhood experience. I don't assume that the world should conform to human expectations of rationality.
As its been said, the world not only is stranger than what we can imagine, but is stranger than we can imagine. I'm all for rationality, but I humbly accept that reality will never be fully contained within rationality. Although, this is no reason not to try to be as rational as possible.
I don't believe nor disbelieve in rationality either. Believing in rationality is what many atheists believe in as a replacement for believing in God. I believe in using rationality where its useful, and not using rationality where it isn't useful. For instance, when introspecting in meditation, rationality is utterly useless. There are things we can know that aren't rational.
If I had enough experiences with ghosts that conformed to some minimal degree with my sense of reality, then I'd accept that ghosts are real even if I had no rational explanation for why it should be possible. Or, at least, I'd accept ghosts as being real until further evidence proved it otherwise. I trust my experience whether or not it fits into the limits of the present understandings of science. If I started to doubt my own direct experience, then I'd really feel lost in this world. |