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Title: Scientific Agnosticism


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Scientific Agnosticism
Nicolas Veltmeyer
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Origin
OO
Thomas Henry Huxley Etymology (Gnostic)?
Scientist A new proffession
Agnosticism - Disorganized
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Influences
Ancient greeks (atomists etc.)?
David Hume The eternal universe
Emmanuel Kant
The Scottish Tradition Thomas Reid and Dugald
Stewart
Thomas Huxley
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Growth and Development
OO
Leslie Stephen and W.K. Clifford
1884 The Agnostic Annual
Agnosticism Organized Religion
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Later Proponents
Bertrand Russell
Robert G. Ingersol
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Modern Variations
Hard, closed, strick or absolute agnosticism
(unknowable)? Soft, open, empirical or temportal
agnosticism (knowable)? Pragmatic or Apathetic
Agnosticism (no nurture)? Agnostic
Atheism Agnostic Theism Ignosticism
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