acatalepsy

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  1. Incomprehensibility. A word much used (in its Greek form) by the later Academics and Skeptics (Carneades, Arcesilaus, etc.), who held that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability, and who advocated a suspension of judgment upon all questions, even upon the doctrine of acatalepsy itself.
  2. In medicine, uncertainty in the diagnosis or prognosis of diseases.
  3. A weak understanding; mental deficiency.

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  1. from Greek ἀκαταληψία, incomprehensibility, from ἀκατάληπτος, incomprehensible, from ἀ- privative + κατάληπτος, comprehensible, comprehended, seized: see catalepsy.
 

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