nescience
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
nescience
- The absence of knowledge; ignorance, especially of orthodox beliefs.
- 1911, Ralph Barton Perry, "Notes on the Philosophy of Henri Bergson," The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, vol. 8, no. 26, p. 720,
- To lapse from knowledge into nescience is always possible—there is no law of God or man forbidding it.
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- Algernon, in a condition of masculine nescience, lets himself become engaged to a woman of whom he knows nothing.
- 1911, Ralph Barton Perry, "Notes on the Philosophy of Henri Bergson," The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, vol. 8, no. 26, p. 720,
- (philosophy) The doctrine that nothing is actually knowable.
- 1895, J. G. Schurman, "Agnosticism," The Philosophical Review, vol. 4, no. 3, p. 244,
- The theory of nescience is but the obverse of the fact of science.
- 1895, J. G. Schurman, "Agnosticism," The Philosophical Review, vol. 4, no. 3, p. 244,
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