nescience

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Mr. Herbert Spencer, in his book called “First Principles,” lays down the doctrine of theological nescience, as the final result of religious inquiry.

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

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

Such an avowal of nescience is an implicit assertion of an immeasurable insight.

From To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)

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

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