#29 agnostic

agnostic, agnosticism- a person who holds that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of a Supreme Being, ultimate cause is impossible
- a person who claims, with respect to any particular question, that the answer cannot be known with certainty

- C19, 1869 coined by T.H. Huxley

I thought then, and have often thought since, how far the principle of moderation might be extended, and whether you could be a moderate agnostic or a moderate fatalist or a moderate logician. — The Adventure of Living

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