Definitions for acatalepsy

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  1. acatalepsy(Noun)

    Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

  2. Origin: From α- + καταλαμβάνειν.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Acatalepsy(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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