acatalepsy
Meanings
noun
- Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + καταλαμβάνειν (katalambánein, “to seize”).
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