Noun:

அறியவொணாமைக் கொள்கை,

agnosticism's Usage Examples:

Jones, almost as merciless as MacTaggart, calls this procedure by the hard names of agnosticism and dualism.

The extremest form of antagonism is pure scepticism or pure agnosticism, the assertion that nothing can be known.

Kant had fewer isolated points of departure than intuitionalists; yet gaps and isolation recurred in Kant, and helped to make him the father of modern agnosticism.

The theory found a melodious echo in Tennyson's In Memoriam, a great hymn of God, Freedom and Immortality on a basis of speculative agnosticism.

Or it may be the result of economic agnosticism, combined with unwillingness to cut adrift from old moorings.

Leslie Stephen gave this popular agnosticism its finest literary expression.

But at least we may say that agnosticism is much less clear in Browning than in Tennyson.

Then again, as the movement, taking its rise in the philosophical agnosticism which grew out of the early physical systems, was itself persistently sceptical, sophistry may be regarded as an interlude in the history of philosophy.

When the existence of God is denied (atheism), or His nature is declared unknowable (agnosticism), or He is identified with nature itself (pantheism), or He is so distinguished from the world that His free action is excluded from the course of nature (deism), miracle is necessarily denied.

Huxley's agnosticism was a natural consequence of the intellectual and philosophical conditions of the 'sixties, when clerical intolerance was trying to excommunicate scientific discovery because it appeared to clash with the book of Genesis.

Flint has dealt with the following antitheistic theories: atheism, materialism, positivism, secularism, pessimism, pantheism and (in a separate volume) agnosticism.

The element of agnosticism tends rather towards pantheism, just as Indian pantheism long ago tended towards agnosticism.

He quotes pages from Mansel's Bampton Lectures in favour of his own type of agnosticism, which is to make peace between religion and science by permanently silencing the former.

Synonyms:

disbelief, unbelief, scepticism, skepticism,

Antonyms:

sacerdotalism, school of thought, theism, certainty, belief,