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The Huxley-an would argue that if anything spiritual or transcendent existed, we could never know it. A modern rationalist would argue that if anything spiritual or transcendent did exist, it would be just as amenable to human understanding and knowledge as everything else.
Huxley's position was that there could exist things that man cannot, in principle, ever know of. The modern rationalist position is that man is, in principle, capable of knowing anything that is true -- nothing fundamental limits man's ability to detect and comprehend all things that exist.
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Who is the founder of atheism?
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a ghost
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a ghost
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