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Agnostic
Agnosticism is the philosophical position where it is impossible to know about the nature or existence of God. This term was invented in 1869 by Thomas H Huxley. So one can define the difference between an Atheist and an Agnostic, an Atheist emphasizes that there is no God, whereas the Agnostic does not know if there is a God. Agnosticism is not a position one can take like theism or atheism, rather it’s more like a rational process.
But when we consider ignorance along with agnosticism which is a mode of the intellective process, there is an obvious contradiction. Because ignorance is not just mere lack of a knowing, conversely, every ignorance is always a process of being ignorant of something quite precise. In other words, one who ignores knows in a particular form what it is that he ignores. For example, a person who has no knowledge on economics is not ignorant of what a Cobb-Douglas equation is, because he lacks information to such equations. Only the man......

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