nescience

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But all other sciences and arts, except this, have for their object the doing away with their opposite nescience and artlessness.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John

Theology and metaphysics Comte repeatedly characterises as the two successive stages of nescience, unavoidable as preludes to science.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell

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 Harley, Timothy

Our exuberant nescience in matters Sternian extends up to the very publication of Tristram, as far as the determining causes of its production are concerned.

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence

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 Russell, Bertrand