acatalepsy
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + καταλαμβάνειν (katalambánein, “to seize”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editacatalepsy (uncountable)
- Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
Translations
editthe doctrine that human knowledge never amounts to certainty
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