nescience

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But total negation is not the result,—only nescience.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

This also is an argument for nescience in theology, in the presumed interests of revelation.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

Science hangs in a void of nescience, a planet turning in the dark.

From A Modern Symposium by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

Cousin made no reply to Hamilton’s criticism beyond alleging that Hamilton’s doctrine necessarily restricted human knowledge and certainty to psychology and logic, and destroyed metaphysics by introducing nescience and uncertainty into its highest sphere—theodicy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

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 Ruskin, John