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Does anyone know how to say "agnostic" in Chinese? or have a dictionary that contains the term?

I know that atheism is 無神論, but that's not what I'm looking for. In Japanese agnostic is 不可知論, so it could possibly be that, but I'm not sure.

Thanks in advance.

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There's another up-and-coming term: 疑神论, which makes the distinction between 有神论 and 无神论 clearer.

Well-known skeptic Fang Zhouzi puts the following note at the top of his translation of Bertrand Russell's "What is an agnostic?":

译按:agnostic通译为“不可知论者”,但在中国的哲学课本中,不可知论者指的是认为世界不可知、不可认识的人,而罗素并非这样的“不可知论者”。此处的agnostic指的是怀疑神的存在的人,故我最初把它译成“怀疑论者”。后又有人指出“怀疑论者”在哲学上另有所指,现改译成“疑神论者”,与“有神论者”、“无神论者”相对。
(found here, but originally on the blocked-in-china XYS site)

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