agnosticism

UK /æɡˈnɒstɪsɪzəm/ US /æɡˈnɑstɪsɪzəm/
noun 4

Definitions

noun

1

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

2

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

Holonyms: epistemology, cosmology, ontology, philosophy

3

Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding the existence of a god or gods.

1956, January 31ˢᵗ: Alan Alexander Milne; quoted in:

1988: James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, № 4,393 (Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

4

Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding any subject of dispute.

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