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What is acatalepsy?

What is acatalepsy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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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If catalepsy is a possession, acatalepsy is the state of ultimate freedom, and the condition of transcendental ignorance.
The doctrine of acatalepsy recalls to us the Stoical doctrine of catalepsy or Apprehension, to which it is the antithesis.
His stolid immobile attitude under duress is compared to sceptical acatalepsy, although it is admitted that this could also be attributed to Stoicism.
This hypothesis leads us straight to the acatalepsy of the Sceptics, for ideas now existing in the mind are not merely the immediate but the only object of the intellect.
These are the arguments that lead to acatalepsy, which concerns the possibility of effectively fulfilling Aristotle's conditions of accurate sense perception.

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