nescience
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If modern science, discovering the moon's inferiority to the sun, call the former feminine, ancient nescience, supposing the sun to be inferior to the moon, called the latter masculine.
From Moon Lore by Timothy Harley
All attempt at concealment implies some practice of the opposite, or undivine science, founded on nescience.
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin
Still less was it a ground for rejoicing, or for supposing that the nescience to which it ought to have given rise could be legitimately exchanged for a metaphysical dogmatism.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
It is a nescience whereby human aspirations are cribbed within ruled lines and made to balance on the opposite side.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke
It is therefore a science founded on nescience, and an art founded on artlessness.
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin
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