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Перевод: agnostic
[прилагательное] агностический; [существительное] агностик
Тезаурус:
- Always committed to God, the sacrament and prayer, he became agnostic about much else.
- Cannot we argue, indeed, on the basis of the usual meaning of "faith" that involves trust in the face of intellectual un certainty, that Russell's uncertainty as to whether or not God exists, the agnostic position, is the one the theist in fact should hold?
- Some people might imagine that the three positions of theist, agnostic and atheist could be defined as follows: the theist knows there is a God; the agnostic doesn't know whether there's a God or not; the atheist knows there is not a God.
- In Oxford, the voice of the gnomic Professor Sammy Finer, a declared political agnostic, rose a full octave when I asked him about it: "It simply isn't true any longer that merit will out.
- So the literary set, many of them agnostic or hostile to religion, ranged behind Lord David, while those who had already committed themselves, together with those who esteemed him as a scholar, voted for E. K. Chambers.
- For it is characteristic of an agnostic to hold that the existence of a god is a possibility in which there is no good reason either to believe or disbelieve; and it is characteristic of an atheist to hold that it is at least probable that no god exists.
- As a self-confessed Christian agnostic he himself, however, was sure of a number of the major tenets of Christianity.
- Yet his closest school-friend, that previous summer term, he found to be an agnostic.
- On Europe, she was an agnostic rather than an unbeliever.
- By PETER STANFORD is right in maintaining (Weekend Guardian, November 4) that Graham Greene is not alone in calling himself a "Catholic agnostic".
- And Wexford who was an agnostic, a profane man, thought, Lord, how manifold are thy works in all the earth.
- Within this creed appear supportive rational arguments but also agnostic admissions, such as "I can understand little about that mind" and "I do not know what "divine" means".
- Weatherhead was honest enough to realise that there are many aspects of religion about which one has to remain uncertain, that is, agnostic.
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