This seems to be a new word being used to describe intentional lying or telling half-truths in order to keep people ignorant of the truth to further a political agenda. Ever hear of it? Here's a Wiki article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology
August 29, 2009, 17:31
Kalleh
Very interesting, Asa, and it's a concept we seem to be talking about in a couple of other threads (related to knowledge of language).
August 29, 2009, 19:03
<Asa Lovejoy>
It was this week's "Erroneous Science" theme that to some degree prompted my bringing it up.
August 30, 2009, 19:37
Kalleh
It sounds a little too close to the word "agnostics" to me. I just went to the OED to look up "agnostics" and found this definition, which gave that word a real different feel for me:
quote:
One who holds that the existence of anything beyond and behind material phenomena is unknown and (so far as can be judged) unknowable, and especially that a First Cause and an unseen world are subjects of which we know nothing.
September 03, 2009, 21:50
goofy
What is the etymology of this word? Perhaps its inventor intended it to be connected with agnostic, but then where's the s, and why was it first spelled agnatology?This message has been edited. Last edited by: goofy,