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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In metaphysics, the doctrine or theory of ignorance, which seeks to determine what we are necessarily ignorant of.

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  1. n. The study of things of which cannot be known.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Metaph.) The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant.

Etymologies

  1. From Greek: ἀγνωστ, agnost, "not known"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge." (Wiktionary)

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  • “In philosophy [emphasis added] a different principle of agnoiology [the study of ignorance] is appropriate, to wit, that no hypothesis should be rejected as unjustified without argument against it.”

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  • “n. - state of being unable to swallow. adj. - having same male forefather; allied; Law, related on father's side; n. such relative. agnation, agnathous adj. - lacking jaws. agnathia, n. agnoiology”

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  • jmjarmstrong JM knows that life wasn't meant to be devoted to agnoiology Feb 14, 2010

  • pavonine the science or study of ignorance, which determines its quality and conditions. Nov 25, 2007

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