@strypey Ah, just looked up Gnosticism in Wikipedia and AFAICT, Gnosticism and Agnosticism are not related at all. Also, the concepts behind agnosticism but not the word itself was also recorded in Greece, China, and India before the Common Era.
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@trishalynn
> the word concept of agnosticism was introduced by an English anthropologist in 1869
Do you know what relationship, if any, it has to the concept of Christian gnostics?
@strypey Ah, just looked up Gnosticism in Wikipedia and AFAICT, Gnosticism and Agnosticism are not related at all. Also, the concepts behind agnosticism but not the word itself was also recorded in Greece, China, and India before the Common Era.
@trishalynn
> Gnosticism and Agnosticism are not related at all
That's not quite right, as they definitely share a common root;
https://www.etymonline.com/word/agnostic
https://www.etymonline.com/word/Gnostic
> the concepts behind agnosticism but not the word itself was also recorded ... before the Common Era
Probably true of every concept anyone thinks was invented by western philosophers ; ) "The West" is basically a cargo cult version of classical Rome/ Greece.
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Which I suspect was itself a retread of older civilisations in the Middle East and North Africa.
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@strypey Not sure? The History section of the Wikipedia article will have more information.
