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    According to philosopher William L. Rowe, in this strict sense, agnosticism is the view that human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational grounds to justify either the belief that God exists or the belief that God does not exist.

  2. agnosticism, (from Greek agnōstos, “unknowable”), strictly speaking, the doctrine that humans cannot know of the existence of anything beyond the phenomena of their experience. The term has come to be equated in popular parlance with skepticism about religious questions in general and in particular with the rejection of traditional ...

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  3. Agnostic atheism or atheistic agnosticism is a philosophical position that encompasses both atheism and agnosticism. Agnostic atheists are atheistic because they do not hold a belief in the existence of any deity and are agnostic because they claim that the existence of a divine entity or entities is either unknowable in principle or currently ...

  4. Agnosticism is defined as a position of suspended belief where it is considered that humans lack sufficient evidence to affirm or deny the existence of God or the ultimate reality. It represents a stance of unknowability on certain matters, including religious beliefs.

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  5. Agnosticism - Beliefs, Origins, History: It is convenient to distinguish the antecedents of secular agnosticism from those of religious agnosticism. The ancestry of modern secular and atheist agnosticism may be traced back to the Sophists and to Socrates in the 5th century bce; not, of course, the “Socrates” of Plato’s Republic—the ...

  6. Agnosticism is the philosophical view that it is unknown (or even, unknowable) whether any deities ( god or gods) exist or not. Some people who call themselves "agnostic" say that it is not possible for anyone ever to know if there are any deities or not.

  7. May 21, 2018 · The term agnosticism, as it is used in common parlance, normally refers to a neutral or undecided position on the question of the existence of God. It is shorthand for a rejection of religious faith on the one hand and of outright atheism on the other.

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