(a.) Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.
(n.) One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The same thing seems to be going on here, with the agnostics the group likely to swing the vote, depending on which side they find less satisfactory on the day.
(2) By 1969, when Arthur Jensen advocated this view in his controversial article (45), most geneticists who spoke publicly on the issue had adopted an agnostic position.
(3) Citron suggested a few solutions , including making sure that laws are technology and platform agnostic; allowing prosecutors to present to judges and juries a totality of the abuse; and increasing penalties for those convicted.
(4) Rics has said it is "agnostic" about which measure of prices is used.
(5) This environment therefore makes many North Koreans agnostic, but some of course conduct religious activities behind closed doors, often however with serious consequences.
(6) All that May has to offer is symbols, but symbols are a more powerful currency with true believers than is ever understood by agnostics.
(7) I am an agnostic who has decided to vote yes, and what I want to do here is describe some of the factors that prompted me to that decision.
(8) Furthermore a non-contradictory answer to the present questions only appears consistent with the "agnostic" method, whose formal implications are explained very shortly.
(9) Labor and the Greens will continue to oppose the repeal of the scheme they created when Julia Gillard was prime minister, but from July the government will have the support of the Liberal Democratic party’s David Leyonhjelm , who after the election told Guardian Australia he was “agnostic” about the science of global warming but “even if it is eventually confirmed, government spending in Australia will not make the slightest bit of difference”.
(10) "Thousands would have had their lives permanently damaged, disfigured or otherwise, whether they were Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, agnostic or atheist."
(11) "Zeitgeist" has been since the french revolution and still is agnostic, secularized and materialistic--also in the scholastic medical sciences: Presence and action of gods supernatural forces in all nature, including disease processes and healing has not been and is not recognized.
(12) But I learned something – when the flames start coming towards you everyone starts praying, even the atheists and the agnostics, but when the flames start fading away we all go back to the structures and beliefs that we had before.” For Baez, the Hanoi experience made her even more determinedly radical than she had been.
(13) The second change, from the agnostic view to the belief that wide race crosses were at worst biologically harmless, took place during and shortly after World War II.
(14) Their 2015 data shows that 3% of Americans identify as atheist (as well as 4% who say they’re agnostic and 16% who say they’re nothing in particular).
(15) The sample was almost entirely Caucasian, disproportionately concentrated in higher education and income categories, and 49% reported they were either athiest or agnostic.
(16) As well, the data is agnostic on the validity of the named targets struck on multiple occasions being marked for death in the first place.
(17) Labour has remained pro-EU ever since, its gone-native MEPs often more integrationist than agnostics at home.
(18) The Liberal Democratic party's David Leyonhjelm , set to win a Senate seat in NSW, told Guardian Australia he was "agnostic" about the science of global warming but "even if it is eventually confirmed government spending in Australia will not make the slightest bit of difference".
(19) But it reflects one simple truth: the Earth's atmosphere is agnostic about who emits.
(20) Thus it becomes evident that there is epistemologically a fundamental difference between the so-called gnostic and the agnostic standpoint, between the psychoanalytical and the phenomenological approach.
Agnosticism
Definition:
(n.) That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
(2) Individually, they stood to declare their loyalty to the throne or to profess their monarchical agnosticism.
(3) Brexit: how a fringe idea took hold of the Tory party | Matthew d’Ancona Read more But Cameron was committed to a public position of agnosticism until the renegotiation was complete.
(4) I move for less censorship of "offensive" material, not more; more mocking of every religion and of atheism and its drippy twin, agnosticism, in front of which I plant my knee.
(5) To put it bluntly ‘doing something’ about global warming gathered strong political momentum in Australia.” Howard was full of praise for Tony Abbott for challenging what had “seemed to be the consensus” on the issue, saying – with a clear sense of approval – that Australians had now “settled into a state of sustained agnosticism … Of course the climate is changing.
(6) For years the population of US Catholics has gradually declined , according to researchers, in line with a broader trend of Americans walking away from religious institutions in favor of atheism, agnosticism and, especially, a category of “no affiliation”.
(7) Oddly, though, my gradual loss of faith and shift to agnosticism was counterbalanced with a growing appreciation for the positive source of meaning and empowerment that faith, spirituality, and collective religious practice can be in people's lives.
(8) AR: And in terms of the conflict between Darwin coming to a point of at least agnosticism from being religious, and Emma retaining her religion, how do you develop that sort of conflict between the two of you?
(9) The lessons on atheism, agnosticism and humanism for thousands of primary-school pupils in Ireland will be drawn up by Atheist Ireland and multi-denominational school provider Educate Together, in an education system that the Catholic church hierarchy has traditionally dominated.
(10) In Part I of this essay, I assess the fairness and cogency of three broad criticisms raised against 'principlism' as an approach: (1) that principlism, as an exercise in applied ethics, is insufficiently attentive to the dialectical relations between ethical theory and mortal practice; (2) that principlism fails to offer a systematic account of the principles of non-maleficence, beneficence, respect for autonomy, and justice; and (3) that principlism, as a version of moral pluralism, is fatally flawed by its theoretical agnosticism.
(11) (My own beliefs tend to veer towards agnosticism, with a healthy side of Buddhism.)
(12) Church of England = 33% Catholicism = 10% Other Christian = 9% Islam = 3% Hinduism = 2% Judaism = 1% Other religion = 3% Agnosticism = 17% Atheism = 21% Do you actively practise your religion, eg you attend regular religious services?
(13) Despite his own agnosticism, the vernacular "sorrow songs" became the privileged vehicle for expressing "the deep religious feeling of the real Negro heart" - the soul ofblack experience.
(14) Howard was forced to, at least temporarily, disavow his personal agnosticism by public opinion, which had been influenced by recent weather events.