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Definition of Agnosticism

1. Noun. 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"

Definition of Agnosticism

1. n. That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.

Definition of Agnosticism

1. Noun. The view that absolute truth or ultimate certainty is unattainable, especially regarding knowledge not based on experience or perceivable phenomena. ¹

2. Noun. The view that the existence of God or of all deities is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable. ¹

3. Noun. Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding the existence of a God or of all deities. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Agnosticism

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Medical Definition of Agnosticism

1. That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc, can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Agnosticism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1905)
"Lucas, В. GJ agnosticism and religion, being an examination of Spencer's religion of the. ... Huron, HD Religious possibilities of agnosticism. Unit. ..."

2. The Beginning of the Third Republic in France: Including Many of the by James Mark Baldwin, Benjamin Rand, Frank Herbert Brabant (1903)
"Janea, LO Philosophical agnosticism and monism. Open Court, v, 1891, pp. ... Mulvaney, CP Some difficulties of agnosticism. Canadian lío., xvii, 1880, pp. ..."

3. Evolution and Dogma by John Augustine Zahm (1896)
"Like Monism, agnosticism is a system of thought which has allied itself with the ... In many questions of fundamental importance, agnosticism is ostensibly ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"It is common, to be sure, to speak of several types of agnosticism, ... agnosticism is in short a theory of the nature and limits of human intelligence. ..."

5. The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of by Ralph Barton Perry (1918)
"There is first spiritualistic agnosticism, which would give a ... In spiritualistic agnosticism this unknown reality is more or less illicitly given a ..."

6. Some Dogmas of Religion by John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (1906)
"agnosticism holds that we can know nothing but phenomena. Beneath these phenomena lies a reality on which they are based, but of this reality, agnosticism ..."

7. The Philosophical Basis of Theism: An Examination of the Personality of Man by Samue Harris (1883)
"agnosticism is a denial that the human intellect is trustworthy; ... It follows that a partial agnosticism necessarily involves complete agnosticism, ..."

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