What is the difference between agnostic and ignostic?

Answer 1

Agnostic is the belief that the divine is unknowable.

Ignostic is one who expresses ignorance of any knowledge of a god or gods due to finding theism incoherent

So, agnostic thinks the divine is a coherent idea, but just thinks that it is unknowable. An ignostic just professes that theism is just nonsense.

Answer 2

I'm not 100% sure - the difference is subtle, but agnostic means someone who believes that the existence or non-existence of God is unprovable/unknowable and ignostic means someone who believes that the existence or non-existence of God is irrelevant to day-to-day life.

An agnostic may actually wonder about - or discuss - God, wherein an ignostic would just say 'get on with life and don't worry about it because it changes nothing either way'.

As I said last time, that makes ignosticism similar to non-theism and would make the Buddha essentially ignostic.

If I'm right. I've been wrong before!

Answer 3

An ignostic IS a kind of agnostic, who, on top of not finding it impossible to know whether there is a god or not, has also decided that it is irrelevant to know the truth about it.

Answer 4

is the view that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because it has no verifiable (or testable) consequences and should therefore be ignored. (See scientific method.) The term was coined by Rabbi Sherwin Wine, founder of the Society for Humanistic Judaism. Ignosticism is often considered synonymous with theological noncognitivism.

For most purposes, this view may be considered a form of agnosticism (sometimes referred to as "apathetic agnosticism"), and falls under the general category of nontheism. But it is a particular form. From this approach, the "I don't know" of agnosticism ceases to mean "I don't know if God exists or not" and becomes "I don't know what you're talking about when you talk about God." This underlies the form of the word: ignosticism, indicating an ignorance of what is meant by a claim of God's existence. Until this ignorance is cleared up, the ignostic is justified in ignoring putative arguments for or against.

Answer 5

Merriam-Webster dictionary says:

AGNOSTIC:

1 : a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god

Wikipedia says:

IGNOSTIC:

Ignosticism is the view that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because it has no verifiable (or testable) consequences and should therefore be ignored

My sense is that they'd both get along well at a party. The Agnostic says that you can't know "god", and the Ignostic would say, "Yes, you can't know god because you can't test for god, therefore the whole question is moot."

I wish you Peace.

Answer 6

As this is the second time this has come up, I assume you definitely mean "ignostic", and not "Agnostic"... where are you going with this?

As an Agnostic, I'm curious...

Would an ignostic be an ignoble Agnostic?

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Answer 7

Agnosticism is merely loss of judgement despite the fact that if or no longer God exists. Ignosticism is a word coined by way of Rabbi Sherwin Wine to point one among 2 correct perspectives with reference to the life of God. the 1st view is that a coherent definition of God might desire to be provided till now the question of the life of God might nicely be meaningfully pronounced. apart from, if that definition can't be falsified, the ignostic takes the theological noncognitivist place that the question of the life of God (according to that definition) is incomprehensible. the 2nd view is synonymous with theological noncognitivism, and skips the step of first asking "what's meant by way of God?" till now proclaiming the belief meaningless. some philosophers have considered ignosticism as a version of agnosticism or atheism, jointly as others have seen it to be distinctive. in spite of everything, that's a sort of nontheism.

Answer 8

I have no idea what an ignostic is but I'm pretty sure it means agnostic. I think...

Answer 9

an agnostic doesn't know if god exists, an ignostic doesn't care whether he exists or not.

Answer 10

Agnosticism is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly theological claims regarding the existence of God, gods, or deities — is unknown or inherently unknowable

Ignosticism is the view that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because it has no verifiable (or testable) consequences and should therefore be ignored.