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Agnosticism

agnosticism (ăgnŏs´tĬsĬzəm), form of skepticism that holds that the existence of God cannot be logically proved or disproved. Among prominent agnostics have been Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, and T. H. Huxley (who coined the word agnostic in 1869). Immanuel Kant was an agnostic who argued that belief in divinity can rest only on faith. Agnosticism is not to be confused with atheism, which asserts that there is no God.

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Agnosticism
Robert Flint. William Blackwood and Sons, 1903
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Skepticism, Belief, and the Modern: Maimonides to Nietzsche
Aryeh Botwinick. Cornell University Press, 1997
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Thomas Henry Huxley
William Irvine. Longmans, Green, 1960
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Taking Disbelief out of the Closet
Dershowitz, Alan M. Free Inquiry, Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer 1999
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Philosophy after Objectivity: Making Sense in Perspective
Paul K. Moser. Oxford University Press, 1993
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Infidels and Heretics: An Agnostic's Anthology
Clarence Darrow; Wallace Rice. Stratford, 1929
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A Kernel of Doubt
Goody, J. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 2, No. 4, December 1996
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Can Agnosticism Improve American Public Life?
Kezirian, Richard. Free Inquiry, Vol. 21, No. 4, Fall 2001
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George Holmes Howison, Philosopher and Teacher: A Selection from His Writings, with a Biographical Sketch
John Buckham Wright; George Malcolm Stratton; George Holmes Howinson. University of California Press, 1934
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Philosophy & Atheism: In Defense of Atheism
Kai Nielsen. Prometheus Books, 1985
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