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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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Deconstructionism? Well, now let me see… You know, I don’t have any idea what that means. I know what you think it means, sonny. To me it’s just a made-up word. An ostentatious word, so young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie and have a job. Deconstructionism? It’s just a bullshit word. So you go on and write your papers, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don’t give a shit.
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Deconstructionism? Well, now let me see… You know, I don’t have any idea what that means. I know what you think it means, sonny. To me it’s just a made-up word. An ostentatious word, so young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie and have a job. Deconstructionism? It’s just a bullshit word. So you go on and write your papers, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don’t give a shit.
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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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