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agnosticism

[ag-nos-tuh-siz-uhm] / ægˈnɒs təˌsɪz əm /






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Agnosticism doesn’t mean you’re lazy or don’t care.

From Scientific American • May 20, 2020

Agnosticism is often denigrated as a passive worldview, the philosophical equivalent of a shrug.

From Scientific American • Oct. 29, 2017

Agnosticism of beliefs makes sense in cases where evidence isn’t populous or clear enough to render a clear conclusion on the absolutism of something in question.

From Forbes • Dec. 14, 2012

Agnosticism is surely not; it is a shrug, a raised eyebrow.

From Time Magazine Archive

In thus denying to the mind all power of attaining to a valid knowledge of anything suprasensible—such as substance, power, force, efficient cause, etc.—Positivism passes over into Agnosticism.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter




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