acatalepsy
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + καταλαμβάνειν (katalambánein, “to seize”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /eɪˈkæ.tə.lɛp.si/, /əˈkæ.tə.lɛp.si/
Noun
acatalepsy (uncountable)
- Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
Translations
the doctrine that human knowledge never amounts to certainty
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