(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.
Modular
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius; as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
(2) Because each linkage project is different, the modular nature of the software allows for better control of the programming process and development of unique strategies.
(3) 1.--Craneo-encephalic traumatisms with loss of consciousness, Feeding with a combination of parenteral nutrition and modular enteral nutrition for 7 days.
(4) A low-cost modular compact personal computer-based system for surface precordial mapping (SPM) developed by the authors was used to detect rejection periods, documented by endomyocardial biopsy (EB), in heart transplant patients on cyclosporine A therapy.
(5) The divergence of the cytochrome b gene is modular: various parts of the gene have changed with a different mode and tempo of evolution.
(6) (3) Full-time and part-time programs must be developed, possibly using a modular format.
(7) A general concept is applied to laboratory scale reactors as well as to large scale production facilities consisting of many unit operations with a hierarchical and highly modular structure.
(8) We have designed, from macronutrient and micronutrient modules, modular tube feeding diets that can vary according to patient needs.
(9) The increase in total medullary mass resulted from diffuse and multifocal modular proliferations of adrenal medullary cells primarily within the head and body regions of the glands.
(10) A deduced amino acid sequence of NvTN.1 showed a modular structure unique to tenascin characterized by epidermal growth factor-like and fibronectin type III repeats.
(11) Among these are manufacturing processes that adversely affect the wear-resistance of polyethylene (such as heat treatments to the articular surface or gamma irradiation used for sterilization), tibio-femoral articular geometry, polyethylene thickness, knee alignment, femoral-component-bearing surface material, modularity of the tibial inserts and tibial trays, and quality of the polyethylene itself.
(12) These modular courses, first implemented in 1982, involve students in a series of internal (college) assessments and two external (national) examinations.
(13) Such standardization ensures accurate interpretation of the modular enteral formula order by the enteral nutrition aide.
(14) Studies of output connections from the STS also reveal a modular anatomical organization of repeating 3-5 mm patches connected to the parietal cortex, an area thought to be involved in spatial awareness and in the control of attention.
(15) The integrated, associative view of number processing is supported by the dependence of modular views on abstract codes and other conceptual inadequacies, evidence for integrated associative networks in calculation tasks, acalculia phenomena, shortcomings in modular architectures for number-processing dissociations, close ties between semantic and verbal aspects of numbers, and continuities between number and nonnumber processing.
(16) The program is written in C, which facilitates transportability and modularity.
(17) Our analysis suggests that enhancers are composed of a modular arrangement of short conserved sequence motifs and that enhancer strength is correlated with the redundancy of these motifs.
(18) A similar 36-home scheme of RSH+P's modular flats for discount rent has also been ordered by Newham council in east London.
(19) NACI's unique modular form design facilitates thorough data collection, even for the most complex treatment scenarios.
(20) A modular gamma ray camera is described that gives useful image information over its entire crystal face.