Agnostic

‘There is an area called “The philosophy of

Knowledge” in phiIosophy. They ask questions, try to
find its answers and think about things like, “How do
I know, what do I know and how much can I know?”
While some give importance to senses, some to
the mind, some to intuition, some to
experiments... Some, on the other hand, accept
some of these altogether.
This is a method problem. However, the answers
given will have a lot of serious consequences.
Unknownness or agnosticism
is the philosophy of those
thinkers who neither accept
nor deny the unattainable
data of observations and
experiment results.
An unknown will say, “There exists only that
which is observable…
 …all those beings which are apart from
this or which are claimed to exist cannot
be judged upon.”
 As of this implication, most agnostics are
indecisive, they may not reject the elements
of their faith but they do not completely
have faith either…
 Let us not defeat their creditor’s even
though they may be little in number, there
are also those who say the following and
follow them too;
 “One cannot reach a complete judgment on topics
in which have been put forward by religions but
cannot be proven with observation or experiments,
…they cannot be proven with the mind but
they could be believed.”
 Agnostics are not as aggressive as certain
atheists. They do not defend the “nonexistent”,
they do not accept the “existing” and so they are
stuck in the middle.
A believer will say it “exists” while an atheist
will say that it is “nonexistent”
 …and an agnostic will say “it neither
exists, nor it doesn’t”! They say that this is
what is acceptable and scientific. They
narrow down the area of knowledge.
On the other hand, there are also ways of
trying to prove beings that fall outside of
the experiment of the senses.
For instance, every art shows its artist. With
the whole universe being orderly, in
harmony and measured, it actually illustrates
its artist.
Just like a book presenting its author, this
book of the universe too introduces its
artist with all its words.
It is possible to understand the words of
“not being known, not being proven” as
”I do not know, I cannot prove.”
 We have the right to say, “You may not know or
prove but you cannot make such a general
judgment, you cannot be a measure for all” to him.
Production: Ahmet Yordam
Text: Ömer Sevinçgül
Translator: Hatice Han Er
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