Saturday, June 16, 2012
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"Agnostic" is the Greek-based word for someone with "no knowledge". The Latin-based word is "ignoramus".
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2 comments:
And as I discovered some years ago, self-identifying 'agnostics' ... along with sefl-identifying 'Christians' who are functionally atheists ... tend to get a might tetchy when one points out that linguistic curiosity.
Also, what we might call 'philosophical argosticism' really amounts to the assertion that *any* knowledge about the world is impossible (as see here).
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