acatalepsy

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acatalepsy

(eɪˈkætəˌlɛpsɪ)

the state of being impossible to conceive or understand a philosophical doctrine stating that human knowledge is never certain

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acatalepsy

- Greek for "not thoroughly seizing" or "incomprehensibility."

acatalepsy

the Skeptic doctrine that knowledge cannot be certain. — acataleptic, n.

acatalepsy

n. deteorización de la habilidad mental

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The biographer records that in 1848 Macaulay "affirmed that his 'metaphysical system is, and will I think continue to be [...] acatalepsy,'" i.e.

It is noticeable in Sullivan's account that in Macaulay's era a degree of acatalepsy was acceptable even among church establishment figures.

Sullivan describes him as "prudently" (44) employing classical acatalepsy to facilitate his "nonbelieving, nominal" Ciceronian Anglicanism which "guaranteed him respectability and preserved him from dispute [...]" (46).