noun
definition
A person who holds to a form of agnosticism, especially uncertainty of the existence of a deity.
Examples of agnostics in a Sentence
Pupils will learn about other faith's marriage ceremonies including agnostics.
But those who, like the positivists, agnostics and sceptics, deny the possibility of metaphysics as a theory of the ultimate nature of things, are still obliged to retain philosophy as a theory of knowledge, in order to justify the asserted limitation or impotence of human reason.
On the other hand, not merely agnostics like Leslie Stephen but Christian theologians of the Left like Ernst Troeltsch regard it as the time when supernaturalism began decisively to go to pieces, and the " modern " spirit to assert its authority even over religion.
Momerie remarked, this would merely be "a definition of honesty; in that sense we ought all to be agnostics."
Humanists are atheists or agnostics and do not expect an afterlife.
As a nickname the term "agnostic" was soon misused to cover any and every variation of scepticism, and just as popular preachers confused it with atheism in their denunciations, so the callow freethinker - following Tennyson's path of "honest doubt" - classed himself with the agnostics, even while he combined an instinctively Christian theism with a facile rejection of the historical evidences for Christianity.