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Thomas Henry Huxley, coiner of the term ‘agnostic’ Given his basic skepticism about the limits of the human intellect, one might have expected Huxley to have argued in his essays on agnosticism that Christian beliefs simply exceed what is theoretically knowable, or one might have thought that, like Clifford, he would have criticized the ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, educator, and advocate of agnosticism (he coined the word). Huxley was a vocal supporter of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary naturalism, and his organizational efforts, public lectures, and writing helped elevate the place of science in modern society.
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Thomas Henry Huxley in the 1860s. He was the first to decisively coin the term agnosticism. Agnostic views are as old as philosophical skepticism, but the terms agnostic and agnosticism were created by Huxley (1825–1895) to sum up his thoughts on contemporary developments of metaphysics about the "unconditioned" (William Hamilton) and the ...
Huxley coined the term "agnosticism" in 1869 and elaborated on it in 1889 to frame the nature of claims in terms of what is knowable and what is not. Huxley had little formal schooling and was virtually self-taught. He became perhaps the finest comparative anatomist of the later 19th century. [4]
Nov 7, 2007 · Agnosticism. by. Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895. Publication date. 1889. Topics. Wace, Henry, 1836-1924, Agnosticism, Christianity -- Apologetic works. Publisher. [London : K. Paul, Trench]
Aug 23, 2020 · The term “agnosticism” was first coined by Thomas Henry Huxley to describe a modest argument: that one cannot claim objective truth if one cannot produce adequate evidence.
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One of its early members, Thomas Henry Huxley, coined the term agnosticism to contrast his own uncertainty with the claims of the gnostics to privileged knowledge. The opposition to, and defence of, agnosticism is examined, as is the nature of scepticism, and the influence of Kant and Hume is explained.
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