different between agnosticism vs agnosis

English

Etymology

Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley. From a- +? gnostic +? -ism (see also agnostic).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æ??n?st?s?z?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /æ??n?st?s?z?m/

Noun

agnosticism (countable and uncountable, plural agnosticisms)

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.
3. Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding the existence of a god or gods.
   • 1956, January 31^st: 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. (by extension) Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding any subject of dispute.

Coordinate terms

• deism

Derived terms

• agnostic
• agnostically
• agnostics

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Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of philosophical isms

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French agnosticisme.

Noun

agnosticism n (uncountable)

1. agnosticism

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?n?st?s??sm/

Noun

agnosticism c

1. agnosticism

Declension

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ?- (a-, “without”, “lacking”) + ?????? (gnôsis, “knowledge”) ? ignorance

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æ??n??s?s/

Noun

agnosis (countable and uncountable, plural agnoses)

1. Epistemologically necessary lack of, indifference to, denial or shunning of, or defective knowledge.
   • 1915: The American Journal of Surgery, volume 29, page 379^{{1} & {2}} (Paul B. Hoeber)

     ^{1} And finally, we come to the agnosis, the most important of them all, […]

     ^{2} I do not refer to the agnosis or the ignorance of cancer in general.

   • 1934: the New York Neurological Association, the Philadelphia Neurological Society, and the Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, volume 80, page 648

     For instance he cannot tell the time on the clock, since that depends on the relation of the direction of the hands to each other. This inability to differentiate the directions in relation to each other is a possible cause of optical agnosis. There is a direction element in the form of every object.

   • 1963: Samuel Brock and Howard P. Krieger, The Basis of Clinical Neurology: The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in Their Application to Clinical Neurology, fourth edition, page 308 (Williams & Wilkins)

     They point out that unilateral spatial agnosis is not the sole cause of the disability, and that some degree of bilateral cerebral involvement may be an […]

   • 2005: Paul J. Griffiths and Reinhard Hütter, Reason and the Reasons of Faith, page 331 (Continuum International Publishing Group; ?ISBN, 9780567028303)

     The situation of the person who denies that metaphysical objectivity that is essential to the very idea of truth is not only one of self-contradiction, but of permanent agnosis.

Synonyms

• agnosticism

Antonyms

• gnosis

Related terms

• agnosia
• agnostic
• agnotology

Translations

Anagrams

• gosains, sagoins