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agnostic

/ag-nos-tik/US // ægˈnɒs tɪk //UK // (æɡˈnɒstɪk) //

不可知论者,不可知论者,不可知的,不可知论

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.
    • : a person who denies or doubts the possibility of ultimate knowledge in some area of study.
    • : a person who holds neither of two opposing positions on a topic: Socrates was an agnostic on the subject of immortality.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to agnostics or their doctrines, attitudes, or beliefs.
    • : asserting the uncertainty of all claims to knowledge.
    • : not taking a stand on something, especially not holding either of two usually strongly opposed positions: to take an agnostic view of technological progress; fuel agnostic energy policies.
    • : not limited or dedicated to a particular device, system, etc.: platform agnostic software.

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Examples

  • Early on, the company was “fairly agnostic,” Jain says, waiting to see whether machines or people could better fact-check the world.

  • Consumers are increasingly agnostic about whether they buy online or locally.

  • Met’s general manager, Jeffrey Kightlinger, said the agency is “agnostic” about the project.

  • The sequence is device agnostic when a user is logged in through their account, which means that shifting between devices doesn’t affect that strategy, it even enhances the experience.

  • We take an agnostic approach to ad tech and wherever there’s commercial growth — then that’s when we’ll look to expand.

  • She is agnostic and a firm supporter for gay rights and birth control.

  • In general, MBAs are agnostic about how cost cutting can be achieved.

  • According to Pew, close to two-thirds of those who identify as atheist or agnostic are men.

  • For the record, I believe in God but am an agnostic about therapy.

  • Street savvy but compassionate, mystical but agnostic and above all, brilliantly idiosyncratic, Fly is a rambling poet of sorts.

  • He had by this time become what would now be called an agnostic.

  • For the Agnostic, no more than the Atheist, can attach no intelligible meaning to "God."

  • True, she said, checked for a moment, but one is not truly agnostic when ones mother has had faith.

  • This statement, coming from a leading agnostic, was welcome to the theologians.

  • A story of modern life and thought, being a study of two opposite types—the Christian and the Agnostic.