Agnosticism (Thomas Henry Huxley, 1860s) – based on a Greek word meaning “unknown or unknowable” (combining Greek prefix a- and PIE root *gno-), an English word originally coined to signal the importance of “scientific grounds” to any claim to truth. It has since evolved to refer to topics and situations in which knowers’ conviction is “We cannot know”(i.e., unknowability) – versus, “We do not know” (i.e., the unknown).
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Davis, B., & Francis, K. (2023). “Agnosticism” in Discourses on Learning in Education. https://learningdiscourses.com.
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