nes|cience

nes|cience
nes|cience «NEHSH uhns, -ee uhns», noun.
1. lack of knowledge; ignorance: »

the…involuntary nescience of men (Jeremy Taylor).

2. the philosophical doctrine, implicit in many forms of agnosticism, that knowledge cannot rest on other than the phenomena of nature, God and the supernatural being both unknowable and unprovable.
[< Late Latin nescientia < nesciēns; see etym. under nescient (Cf.nescient)]

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