definition of the word acatalepsy

From Ancient Greek α- + καταλαμβάνειν (“‘to seize’”).

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acatalepsy (uncountable)

1. 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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