(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.
Gnostic
Definition:
(a.) Knowing; wise; shrewd.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy.
(n.) One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the same time there is a low activity in post-central and temporal "afferent" (sensory-gnostic) cortical areas.
(2) These documents were then compared with the 'Seven sermons', and numerous affinities noted between it and the Gnostic texts.
(3) The MRT expresses the degree of gnostic disturbances by means of a point system.
(4) "As a secularist with Gnostic proclivities," he writes, "and above all as a literary aesthete, I preach Bardolatry as the most benign of all religions."
(5) The authors describe gnostic rings, an additional technique, that is useful for clinical sensibility testing, as well as for sensory reeducation.
(6) Decisive syndromal points of view are: a) there is an absence of significant audiological deficiencies; b) errors of the acoustic-discriminative type prevail in auditory-visual matching tasks; c) the gnostic deficit is modality specific; d) the same items are variably reproduced on repeated presentation; e) there is marked fluctuation of performance; f) there is exceptional irreversibility of the impairment; g) amusia is a more or less obligatory accompanying phenomenon; h) in cases of vascular origin there is always a history of repeated temporal lobe damage, this damage being predominantly in the form of bilateral lesions.
(7) Inflow of potassium ions into the alga Hydrodictyon reticulatum is reduced in the dark, the reduction being accompanied by a change in the selectivity pattern with respect to alkali metal ions, observed in competition experiments and evaluated by the gnostic analysis as described by Kovanic.
(8) It is not enough to assume that because Jung chose the pseudonym of Basilides, he was necessarily Jung's primary Gnostic influence.
(9) 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.
(10) Findings of this study suggest that the connection between the gnostic units of expression and the gnostic units of verbal labeling is not impaired significantly among the dementia patients.
(11) Clinical features deviating from the usual pattern included: no psychosis, no measurable dementia, no dwarfism, no microcephaly, no (marked) involuntary movements, but conspicuous generalised muscle atrophy and denervation, impairment of vital and gnostic sensation, thoracolumbar vertebral anomalies, and aplasia of os coccygis.
(12) The cells of the highest stage eventually become "gnostic cells", whose response shows the final result of the pattern-recognition of the network.
(13) The results have been compared with 101 patients without consideration of all gnostic defects.
(14) However, the most important are signs which definitely correspond to the specificity of the lateralization of the gnostical functions.
(15) The main outcome of the experiments described in the paper is an idea on the gnostic cortical microset.
(16) Bloom, the "Jewish Gnostic heretic" and dedicated follower of Emerson, observes that "sublime literature demands an emotional not an economic investment", and, for himself, declares he is ready to submit, with reservations, to being described as "a theorist of the American Sublime".
(17) While there is no way of knowing precisely what Jung was thinking when he wrote the 'Seven sermons', it is clear that he was well acquainted not only with the work of Basilides, but also with the work of other Gnostic thinkers.
(18) Religious metaphors are rife in these conversations about bread, cheese and coffee – these everyday items have been elevated to gnostic mysteries.
(19) As Luria has noted, the gnostic disturbances associated with damages of the right hemisphere are "the remarkable absence of perception of the patient of his own defects; .
(20) It is shown that preservation of connections of cortical gnostic zones with verbal structures of the left hemisphere is the obligatory condition for consciousness functioning.