Can agnosticism be expanded to include all knowledge because nothing can ever be proven?
Are you familiar with the scientific method? One of the core principles of this site is to use the scientific method as the most reliable way of understanding the natural world.
Just a cop out for not knowing the difference between your gut feelings and your intellectual nonsense!!!
It is a word. Like any other word you can do with it what you wish, and you certainly would not be the first to use it in that way.
But if you do do strange things with words, then you had best explain yourself carefully. Because it is all too easy to cause confusion and be misunderstood, even when you use the commonest dictionary usages, you may also get that special breed of the intellectually challenged, the language pedants, excited, ( which is never pretty, ) and most of the time you will do both.
Yes, according to my ‘A’ level general studies teacher, who was a scientist, there are only tested hypotheses, no facts.
No because agnosticism is really nothing more than an euphemism for atheism using the difference between knowledge and belief to force a kinder gentler atheism.
Regardless of what you call it our ignorance about ourselves and the universe remains the same.
Ludicrous.... the alleged gawds are nothing so such can never be proven but knowlege is obvious you seem to know enough meaning of real words to form irrational questions. Avoid the xian dictionaries. Our Atheism is falsely defined there and agnosticism was invented by Huxley when he cowardly betrayed his friend Darwin attacked by many xians.... our Atheism is true, theism is false, we know this and agnostics pretend at least one alleged gawd exists somewhere unknowable ....how stupid can such questions be ???????
Agnosticism can be expanded to all things that have not YET been proven yes.
However there are things that can never be proven to be true but can be proven to be false such as lies and things that can be proven to be true such as axioms and things which are conceptual that all fall outside of the realm of agnosticism in the true sense of the word.
Agnosticism as a proper noun however is commonly held to apply uniquely to religion because as in so many other instance religion is given a privileged position in discursive dialog exempting it from commonly held rules of academia and intellectual study for no good or sound reason.