agnosticism. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

agnosticism

SYLLABICATION:	ag·nos·ti·cism
PRONUNCIATION:	g-nst-szm
NOUN:	1. The doctrine that certainty about first principles or absolute truth is unattainable and that only perceptual phenomena are objects of exact knowledge. 2. The belief that there can be no proof either that God exists or that God does not exist.


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