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Not sure if god exists, but very sure you shouldn't claim to know either.

means Someone who holds that the existence of God or gods can't be known for certain, so they neither affirm nor deny it.

from Coined in the 1860s by biologist T.H. Huxley, who built it from Greek 'a-' (without) plus 'gnostos' (known), consciously opposing it to 'gnostic.' Huxley wanted a label for his own stance among more dogmatic peers — he later said he picked it almost as a joke, modeling it on the 'unknown god' the apostle Paul found an altar to in Athens, but it stuck as serious philosophical vocabulary almost immediately.

coined by
Thomas Huxley in 1869, from greek unknowable
not
atheism, which claims an answer agnosticism withholds
tech sense
software that works regardless of platform, same humility
common mixup
fence-sitting, actually a stance on knowledge, not belief
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