Where does “不可知論” come from?

不可知論 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 論, from Japanese 統辞論, from Japanese 統辞 — syntax.

不可知論 (Japanese): agnosticism

Definitions

  1. agnosticism

Ancestry of “不可知論”, step by step

不可知論 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 論

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese論theory
2Japanese統辞論syntax as a field of study, syntactics
3Japanese統辞syntax

via Japanese 不可知

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese不可知unknowable
Every word from Japanese 統辞 →Every word from Japanese 論 →Every word from Japanese 統辞論 →