As described here, in technical domains agnostic can be used to describe a state of affairs where one thing doesn't care about the specifics of another thing it's related to. For instance, in software engineering, one might speaking of a "platform-agnostic" solution. This suggests that the solution need not have any information about the platform it is executing on to be a solution – it's a solution independent of the platform. In the same way you can talk about things being "OS-agnostic" or "language-agnostic".
I'm suffering tip of the tongue phenomenon. I think that there's another word that be used in these "X-agnostic" constructions that means specifically what agnostic is being used for here. When I try to sound it out, however, my brain keeps jumping back to "agnostic" or to "ambivalent", which is also not the word I'm thinking of.
I think the word I'm thinking of can also be used to describe the relationship between a theory and a question if the theory is non-dispositional with regard to the answer to the question. "My theory is X with regard to that question."
It's driving me crazy. What's the word I'm thinking of?
Best Answer
A term synonymous with platform-agnostic is platform-neutral.
Perhaps the word you're thinking of is neutral.