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