AGNOSTICISM
\aɡnˈɒstɪsˌɪzəm], \aɡnˈɒstɪsˌɪzəm], \a_ɡ_n_ˈɒ_s_t_ɪ_s_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.
By Oddity Software
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The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.
By Noah Webster.
