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What does nescience mean?

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Noun
  1. The absence of knowledge; ignorance, especially of orthodox beliefs.
  2. (philosophy) The doctrine that nothing is actually knowable.
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Ignorance cannot convince knowledge by repeated asseveration of its nescience.
Such an avowal of nescience is an implicit assertion of an immeasurable insight.
The nescience of the Agnostic philosophy is the proof from experience that to be carnally minded is Death.
It reminds me somewhat of the collusion between cynicism and innocence, in which nescience is the very form that jaded dyspepsia takes.
On the other hand, as the limits of science expand, so do the limits of nescience become more definite.
Instead this block of nescience is something dense, opaque, and fenced of with barbed wire.

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