Ignosticism
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Ignosticism or igtheism is the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because the word "God" has no coherency and an ambiguous definition.
Terminology[edit]
The term ignosticism was coined in 1964 by Sherwin Wine, a rabbi and a founding figure of Humanistic Judaism.
Distinction from theological noncognitivism[edit]
Ignosticism and theological noncognitivism are similar although whereas the ignostic says "every theological position assumes too much about the concept of God",[1] the theological noncognitivist claims to have no concept whatever to label as "a concept of God",[2] but the relationship of ignosticism to other nontheistic views is less clear. While Paul Kurtz finds the view to be compatible with both weak atheism and agnosticism,[3] other philosophersLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Category handler/data' not found.[<span title="Script error: No such module "delink".">who?] consider ignosticism to be distinct.
See also[edit]
- Apatheism
- Apophatic theology
- Atheism
- Conceptions of God
- Epistemology
- Ietsism
- Loki's Wager
- Pantheism
- Scientific method
- Verificationism
References[edit]
- ↑ Lindsay 2015, p. 73
- ↑ Conifer, Theological Noncognitivism: "Theological noncognitivism is usually taken to be the view that the sentence 'God exists' is cognitively meaningless."
- ↑ Kurtz, New Skepticism, 220: "Both [atheism and agnosticism] are consistent with igtheism, which finds the belief in a metaphysical, transcendent being basically incoherent and unintelligible."
Sources[edit]
- Drange, Theodore (1998). "Atheism, Agnosticism, Noncognitivism". Internet Infidels. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
External links[edit]
The dictionary definition of ignosticism at Wiktionary
