@@ -3 +3,11 @@ The epistemological stance that knowledge is only as certain as the available evidence. It is [skepticism], especially as pertaining to questions of [religion]. Agnosticism is consistent with [atheism].
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+A - without
+Gnosis - intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths (as claimed by the gnostics).
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+Here is the unarguable "horse's mouth" (Huxley coined the word)
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+...it is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what Agnosticism asserts; and, in my opinion, it is all that is essential to Agnosticism. That which Agnostics deny, and repudiate as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to [believe|belief], without logically satisfactory evidence."
+("Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays", Thomas Henry Huxley 1889, Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1992, p. 193.)
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+So an agnostic, asserts that the nature or attributes of the gods is unknowable except through the intuition. This of course, has as the corollary, as Huxley (as a Deist) most certainly meant, the proposition that [gods|OnGod] exist in some shape, form and quantity, albeit "necessarily" objectively unknown** (and sometimes meant as an assertion that these attributes are unknowable) to the agnostic (and sometimes meaning to everyone).
