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• Agnosticism — • A philosophical theory of the limitations of knowledge, professing doubt of or disbelief in some or all of the powers of knowing possessed by the human mind Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Agnosticism     Agnosticism …   Catholic encyclopedia

• agnosticism — AGNOSTICÍSM s.n. Concepţie filozofică idealistă care neagă, parţial sau total, posibilitatea cunoaşterii obiective a lumii, a esenţei fenomenelor. – Din fr. agnosticisme. Trimis de ana zecheru, 18.03.2008. Sursa: DEX 98  agnosticísm s. n. (sil.… …   Dicționar Român

• Agnosticism — Ag*nos ti*cism, n. That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• agnosticism — (n.) 1870, from AGNOSTIC (Cf. agnostic) + ISM (Cf. ism). The agnostic does not simply say, I do not know. He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. [Robert G. Ingersoll, Reply to Dr. Lyman Abbott, 1890] …   Etymology dictionary

• agnosticism —    Agnosticism is variously defined as (1) lack of belief in God, (2) lack of belief in God and lack of belief that there is no God, (3) the view that the existence of God cannot be proved, and (4) the view that the existence of God cannot be… …   Christian Philosophy

• agnosticism — [ag näs′ti siz΄əm] n. the doctrine of agnostics: distinguished from ATHEISM …   English World dictionary