Letter: Geoff Bish obituary

‘I’m a philosophical agnostic but a practical atheist,’ Geoff Bish told a nurse when he was in an Edinburgh hospital. She recorded him as ‘eggnostic’

I met Geoff Bish when we were both studying logic and philosophy at A-level at Newbattle Abbey College in Scotland in 1963-64. Not long after we had been discussing the proofs for the existence of God, he was taken into Edinburgh Royal hospital with appendicitis. When the nurse asked him for his religion, Geoff replied: “Well I’m a philosophical agnostic but a practical atheist.” She recorded “eggnostic” on his form.