Gnostic v. Agnostic

[Darth]

A/an- a morpheme (prefix in this case) meaning without or not. The root of the word, gnost would mean knowledge (-ic forms adjectives, so it's approrpriate that we use them, 'almost' like adjectives). It may have been like the -gruntle- in dis-gruntle-d, a bound root morpheme, or it may not have been. I'm not entirely sure how people have been using the word gnostic throughout history (though it definitely ALSO refers to that wiped out religion), only that people, perhaps working from agnostic, are using it to mean with knowledge.

If it was only recently coined, then so what, that's how english works, and 'opposite of agnostic atheist' sounds so silly, especially when a/an- already means 'without/not'

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