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agnosticism|ægˈnɒstɪsɪz(ə)m|
[f. agnostic + -ism.]
The doctrine or tenets of Agnostics.
1870Spect. 29 Jan. 135 The lecture was..perhaps not quite so full as it should have been of his Agnosticism. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. I. 27 They themselves vehemently dispute the term [atheism] and usually prefer to describe their state of mind as a sort of know-nothingism or Agnosticism, or belief in an unknown and unknowable God. 1877E. Conder Basis of Faith i. 25 But there is nothing per se irrational in contending that the evidences of Theism are inconclusive, that its doctrines are unintelligible, or that it fails to account for the facts of the universe, or is irreconcilable with them. To express this kind of polemic against religious faith the term ‘agnosticism’ has been adopted. 1879Huxley Hume i. 60 Called agnosticism, from its profession of an incapacity to discover the indispensable conditions of either positive or negative knowledge. 1880Sat. Rev. 26 June 819/2 In nine cases out of ten Agnosticism is but old atheism ‘writ large.’ |