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agnosticism

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ag·nos·ti·cism  (g-nst-szm)
n.
1. The doctrine that certainty about first principles or absolute truth is unattainable and that only perceptual phenomena are objects of exact knowledge.
2. The belief that there can be no proof either that God exists or that God does not exist.
agnosticism
the tenet that neither the existence nor the nature of God is known or knowable. — agnostic, n., adj.
See also: God and Gods
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Noun1.agnosticism - a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God; "agnosticism holds that you can neither prove nor disprove God's existence"
religious orientation - an attitude toward religion or religious practices
2.agnosticism - the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge
scepticism, skepticism
unbelief, disbelief - a rejection of belief


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Come along, or it will be dark before we get to Stourcastle, and there's no place we can sleep at nearer than that; besides, we must get through another chapter of A COUNTERBLAST TO AGNOSTICISM before we turn in, now I have taken the trouble to bring the book.
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Morse bitterly arraigned the English philosopher's agnosticism, but confessed that he had not read "First Principles"; while Mr.
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Zarathustra now meets the last pope, and, in a poetical form, we get Nietzsche's description of the course Judaism and Christianity pursued before they reached their final break-up in Atheism, Agnosticism, and the like.
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