agnos

Through a cloud of unknowing (agnos), sometimes a person is surprised at what they find on the other side.

Confirmation Bias and ID 2006

Ruth was one of the few people who knew that Agapi's real name was Doris DeMatteo, that she had chosen her pseudonym because agapi meant "love" and agnos referred to ignorance, which she redefined as a form of innocence.

The Bonesetter's Daughter TAN, Amy 2001

Theists think that at least some of the key Jewish or Christian claims are true, atheists think they are false, and traditional agnos - tics, as H.H. Price puts it in his Belief (London, 1969), suspend “judgement on the ground that we do not have sufficient evidence to decide the question and so far as he [the agnostic] can tell there is no likelihood that we ever shall have” (p. 455).

AGNOSTICISM KAI NIELSEN 1968

Robert Flint and James Ward, so construed “agnosticism” that (1) it was identified with “philosophical skepticism” and (2) it allowed for there being “theistic agnostics” and “Christian agnos - tics.”

AGNOSTICISM KAI NIELSEN 1968

However, what has not received such wide accept - ance is the claim that the acceptance of such a de - mythologizing undermines Judaism and Christianity and drives an honest man in the direction of agnos - ticism or atheism.

AGNOSTICISM KAI NIELSEN 1968

However, this is not all that should be said vis-à-vis the conflict between science and religion and agnos - ticism.

AGNOSTICISM KAI NIELSEN 1968

Their mode of bewitching is various: by fascination or casting an evil eye ( 'Nescio,' says the Virgilian shepherd, 'quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos'); by making representations of the person to be acted upon in wax or clay, roasting them before a fire; by mixing magical ointments or other compositions and ingredients revealed to us in the witch-songs of Shakspeare, Jonson, Middleton, Shadwell, and others; sometimes merely by muttering an imprecation.

The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

Quia nostros agnos conclusos istic esse aiunt duos.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Et praeter eos agnos meus est istic clam mordax canis: qui nisi nobis producuntur iam atque emittuntur foras, arietes truces nos erimus, iam in vos incursabimus.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

C. adspicis, ut teneros subitus uigor excitet agnos? utque superfuso magis ubera lacte grauentur et nuper tonsis exundent uellera fetis? hoc ego iam, memini, semel hac in ualle notaui105 et uenisse Palen pecoris dixisse magistros.

A Singing Match Calpurnius 1912