Questions tagged [agnosticism]
An agnostic is one who believes it impossible to know anything about God or about the creation of the universe and refrains from commitment to any religious doctrine.
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In what sense is atheism scientific?
I have been reading a bit of Dawkins and the like and they all seem to hold a very strong viewpoint on atheism and its associated ideology. I have not found a direct citation for this but he ...
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Are we all ‘atheist’ or 'agnostic in a pandemic'? [closed]
Saudi Arabia is a deeply religious country. Most of the people in the Persian Gulf nation pray five times a day, 35 times a week, 140 times a month and 1,680 times a year. But they banned pilgrimages (...
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What is the difference between knowledge and belief?
Sometimes this image is used to explain what agnosticism is and how it's independent from belief:
It makes some sense but I still have confusion understanding it.
What is the difference between ...
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How far can/should one press philosophical doubt?
Should we keep on questioning until nothing is left to question or is there a point on which we need to stand (which we often tend to do)? Descartes used 'I think' as this fixed point where the ...
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Why should an atheist care about what happens to the world after his/her death?
Consider someone who doesn't believe in any kind of reincarnation or perfect punishment after death, an atheist. That is, nothing in the world can impact him/her after his/her death, because, as he/...
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How to avoid nihilism as an agnostic?
As an agnostic I end up as a nihilist on morality. Philosophers say we need a framework for morality but if that framework is religious, which itself is not empirical and sometimes is contradictory, ...
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Is atheism or agnosticism more rational?
While there is still widespread disagreement regarding the existing definition of atheism, it is normally considered as the "Rejection of belief in the existence of deities".
One accepted definition ...
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Does Strong Agnosticism (as opposed to Weak Agnosticism) justify taking Pascal's wager?
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Weak Agnosticism: not knowing whether God exists or not, but remaining open to deciding later (presumably after thinking more on the subject or gaining more facts).
Strong Agnosticism: ...
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How compatible is atheism with agnosticism?
My question is about the presence of God in people`s lives. If we reject the form of God as a supernatural being with forces of punishing people, or providing them with afterlife rewards, are we ...
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Is Theological Agnosticism a defensible position?
Given that there is a substantive body of debate between atheism and religion, how can the proposition that the existence of God(s) is unknowable really be defended?
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Is Spinoza the formal founder of agnosticism?
According to a search on Google for "who founded agnosticism": It says that T.H. Huxley is the first to coin the word agnosticism publicly, but there is no much said about who was the ...
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What is the difference between atheism and agnosticism? [closed]
(Apologies for the crazy length question)
Whenever the thorny issue of theism vs. atheism comes up -- especially on the
internet -- a further issue always seems to arise concerning what these
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Why would philosophical agnosticism and pragmatic atheism be considered more rational than philosophical agnosticism and pragmatic theism?
I'm referring to the accepted answer on this post. The answerer states that
If one is both attentive to empirical scientific studies and to philosophical investigations of the limits of knowledge, ...
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Is agnosticism subjective? And thus the "spaghetti monster"-argument falls apart?
According to the philosopher William L. Rowe,
"agnosticism is the view that human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational grounds to justify either the belief that God exists or the ...
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How to properly define the "neutral" position between Theism/Atheism and Agnosticism/Gnosticism?
Assuming that:
agnosticism = belief that there is no way to verify if god/s exist or not.
gnosticism = belief that there is a way to verify if god/s exist or not.
atheism = disbelief in the ...
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Are agnosticism and ignosticism incompatible with each other?
If someone claims that the concept of God is ambiguous and it is meaningless to talk about its existence, then such a person cannot take a stance as far as knowledge is concerned. Wouldn't an Agnostic ...
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Agnostic theism and agnostic atheism and their validity
Recently, there has been a rise of the terms like "Agnostic Theism" and "Agnostic Atheism" which one rarely comes across in philosophical literature. To me, these terms seem more of a mockery of the ...
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If you believe that our reality is some kind of reflection, what should be your label? Atheist? Nonbeliever? Agnostic?
If you believe in the external presence (God), but you are not religious in a conventional way. You believe in destiny, guidance from above, the afterlife, but you don't believe that Jesus Christ or ...
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Please help me understand Huxley, agnosticism and christianity
There are people who say "I don't think we can ever know whether God exists or not but I would like to believe he exists." Are they agnostic theists? Knowledge and belief are two different things ...
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Does agnosticism require absolution?
Can agnosticism be interpreted as requiring an absolute or ubiquitous force in living?
By absolute I generalize a concept "as is": the same idea as irrefutable, or governing without using what I feel ...
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A logical approach to the question of God
I am trying create a logical approach to the question of whether there's a creator or not, but I have a few questions. Before that though, I'll outline what I have currently:
Something started ...
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What Form of agnostic am I?
I believe that the existence of god (or another deity) is unknownable
I neither believe nor disbelieve in the existence of a god (or other deities) though I'm skeptical/doubtful about existence of a ...
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Shouldn't reasoned agnosticism dissolve into atheism concerning most world religions?
Agnosticism is typically understood as maintaining the general premise that there are insufficient rational grounds for either accepting or rejecting claims like "God exists" or "God does not exist".
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What is the philosophical definition for Agnosticism (compared to Atheism/Theism)? [closed]
Is there an agreed upon definition for Agnosticism from a philosophical perspective? Is there a proper philosophical categorization of it compared to theism/atheim?
Looking through the literature I ...
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Does Godel's incompleteness theorem support agnosticism?
The nature or the universe where we live in has a rule controlling how things work (if not, then the world surely is agnostic). Take it as our model, then the model allows the arithmetic.
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What is meant by "agnostic to a lesser degree"?
This was said by Sam Harris in response to somebody who said they were agnostic. I won't present his argument or question, but it did contain the following phrase
You are obviously agnostic to a ...