nescience

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Nor is he, like Shakespeare's biographer, reduced to choose between the starvation of nescience and the windy diet of conjecture.

From Life of John Milton by Garnett, Richard

It is not difficult to detect the fallacies in this argument of Spencer for religious nescience.

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

The so-called science that assumes or undertakes to do that, is materialism and nescience.

From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by Buck, J. D. (Jirah Dewey)

Accordingly the gift of counsel is in the blessed, in so far as God preserves in them the knowledge that they have, and enlightens them in their nescience of what has to be done.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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