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Webster 1913 Edition
Acatalepsy
A-cat′a-lepˊsy
,Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK];
ἀ
priv. + [GREEK] to seize, comprehend.] Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
Webster 1828 Edition
Acatalepsy
ACAT'ALEPSY
,Noun.
Impossibility of complete discovery or comprehension; incomprehensibility. [Little used.]
Definition 2024
acatalepsy
acatalepsy
English
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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