agnosticism

英 [æɡˈnɒstɪsɪzəm]

美 [æɡˈnɑːstɪsɪzəm]

n.  不可知论(认为不可能知道是否有神)

BNC.35544 / COCA.32839

柯林斯词典

• 不可知论
  Agnosticismis the belief that it is not possible to say definitely whether or not there is a God.

英英释义

noun

• the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge
  Synonym:skepticismscepticism
• a religious orientation of doubt
  1. agnosticism holds that you can neither prove nor disprove God's existence

双语例句

• There are all the good ideas brought over from when the Merb team joined the party and brought a focus on framework agnosticism, slimmer and faster internals, and a handful of tasty APIs.
  Merb团队加入后带来的都是些很棒的主意，包括关注到框架中晦涩难懂的部分，更快更轻量级的内部实现，以及一些“美味可口”的API。
• He points out that the using of self-consciousness have a certain range. You may move towards the extremes of idealism and ultimately toward agnosticism, if you abuse the self-consciousness initiative.
  他指出如果滥用自我意识的能动性，势必走向唯心主义的极端，最终走向不可知论，即认为自我意识的运用有一定范围。
• Agnosticism: I think shit happens.
  不可知论：我想屙狗屎。
• And now agnosticism is often put forth as a middle ground between theism and atheism.
  不可知论者通常介于有神论与无神论之间的那部分人。
• There are three reasons that cause Locke to land himself into agnosticism: his insistence on a narrow view of empiricism;
  导致洛克陷入不可知论的原因有三：洛克坚持了狭隘的经验论立场；
• He proceeded from dualism and agnosticism, divided two kinds of functions of reason, namely theory reason and practice reason, by way of limiting rational cognitive ability and stressed the preferential position of practice reason.
  他从二元论和不可知论出发，划分理性的两种功能，即理论理性和实践理性，以限制理性的认识能力的方式，突出了实践理性的优先地位。
• Modern agnosticism denied that subjective cognition could attain to objective existence by stressing the primacy of subject.
  近代不可知论则通过强调认识的主体性，而否定认识可以达到客观存在。
• For Huxley, agnosticism was the proper common-sense guide to life in science and beyond it, while training and organizing were the keys to building up a professional scientific community.
  对于赫胥黎来说，不可知论是科学生活和非科学生活的合适的常识引导者，而训练和组织则是建立专业科学社会的关键步骤。
• Empiricism moves to skepticism and agnosticism at last. Rationalism often asks for God to guarantee the objectivity of knowledge.
  经验论最后走向了怀疑主义和不可知论，唯理论往往要求助于上帝才能保证知识的客观性。
• But after its failure, he was for improvement but against revolution, airing agnosticism and religion.
  但到运动破产后，他鼓吹改良，反对革命；宣扬不可知论，并为宗教张本。