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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Why so many scientifically sane people are so ignorant in question about human consciousness? [closed]
Question in subject I guess clear enough, nothing to add into body.
Scientific sanity - we typically understand evidence based approach or Popper criteria.
Ignorance - Socrat described it in best way, ...
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For Agnostic philosophers, 'God' is a placeholder for anything that science can not explain? [closed]
Bertrand Russell: As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as
an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive
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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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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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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 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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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:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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