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To: SeekAndFind

“agnostic (n.)
1870, “one who professes that the existence of a First Cause and the essential nature of things are not and cannot be known” [Klein]; coined by T.H. Huxley (1825-1895), supposedly in September 1869, from Greek agnostos “unknown, unknowable,” from a- “not” + gnostos “(to be) known”

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=agnostic

ignoramus (n.)
1570s, from an Anglo-French legal term (early 15c.), from Latin ignoramus “we do not know,” first person present indicative of ignorare “not to know” (see ignorant). The legal term was one a grand jury could write on a bill when it considered the prosecution’s evidence insufficient. Sense of “ignorant person” came from the title role of George Ruggle’s 1615 play satirizing the ignorance of common lawyers.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=ignoramus&searchmode=none

“AGNOSTIC” sounds so much more sophisticated than “IGNORAMUS”, though the meaning is the same (less your ‘nuances’).


5 posted on 05/02/2015 8:10:33 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: BwanaNdege

Absolutely correct and you can toss the utterly illogical atheists in there too.


23 posted on 05/03/2015 6:16:10 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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