- 1不可知論（指這種看法本身；持這種看法的人叫不可知論者）
Agnosticism is the view that people cannot know whether God exists — not yes, not no, but "we do not have a way to be sure." It names the idea; the person who holds the idea is an . A scientist, Thomas Henry Huxley, made the word by adding - (a system of belief) to . You will meet it in careful writing about religion and philosophy more than in everyday chat. Students sometimes treat the long - as if it were a kind of person, because so many belief-words look similar, but this one names the stance, not the human. Though actually, writers also talk about agnosticism toward other big claims (not only God), meaning a refusal to say we know when we do not.
組成Coined as a- + gnostic + -ism (see also agnostic): "not-knowing" as a named position.
同家族的字
- agnosticthe person, or the adjective, that this -ism is built from
- gnosticthe "knowing" piece without the "not"
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
agnosticismnoun/æɡˈnɒstɪsɪzəm/
- 1
The view that absolute truth or ultimate certainty is unattainable, especially regarding knowledge not based on experience or perceivable phenomena.
- 2
The view that the existence of God or of all deities is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable.
- Holonyms: epistemology, cosmology, ontology, philosophy
- 3
Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding the existence of a god or gods.
- 1956, January 31ˢᵗ: Alan Alexander Milne; quoted in:
- 1988: James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, № 4,393 (Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
- 4
Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding any subject of dispute.
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