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Epistemologically necessary lack of,indifference to,denial orshunning of, ordefective knowledge .
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I mean, I'm an agnostic by the real way that it means, agnosis, you know, not knowing.
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I mean, I'm an agnostic by the real way that it means, agnosis, you know, not knowing.
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I mean, I'm an agnostic by the real way that it means, agnosis, you know, not knowing.
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I mean, I'm an agnostic by the real way that it means, agnosis, you know, not knowing.
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In a segment called "Health Care Hell-Scare - Die-agnosis: Mur-DR" Stephen Colbert picked up where Sean Hannity left off: Scaring the crap out of you ... var news_amount = 1;
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Derived from the Greek root agnosis, it is "the study of culturally constructed ignorance."
Wired Top Stories 2009
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Derived from the Greek root agnosis , it is "the study of culturally constructed ignorance."
Clive Thompson on How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge 2009
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In a segment called "Health Care Hell-Scare - Die-agnosis: Mur-DR" Stephen Colbert picked up where Sean Hannity left off: Scaring the crap out of you ... var news_amount = 2;
Allison Kilkenny: Healthcare Exec Turned Whistleblower Thinks America Needs Universal Coverage 2009
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And Mr. de Morgan adds: "This had reference to the absolute agnosis on religious views which was the banner U.C. nailed to the mast in old days."
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking
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Their diagnosis, therefore, implies agnosis, or ignorance too great to be forgiven.
A Simpleton Charles Reade 1849
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