Philosophy:Agnoiology

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Short description: Study of ignorance

Agnoiology (from the Greek ἀγνοέω, meaning ignorance) is the theoretical study of the quality and conditions of ignorance,[1][2] and in particular of what can truly be considered "unknowable" (as distinct from "unknown"). The term was coined by James Frederick Ferrier, in his Institutes of Metaphysic (1854),[3] as a foil to the theory of knowledge, or epistemology.[4]

References

  1. Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Agnoiology". Encyclopædia Britannica. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 378. 
  2. Pojman, Louis P. (2015). "Agnoiology". in Audi, Robert. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (Third ed.). New York City: Cambridge University Press. pp. 17. ISBN 978-1-139-05750-9. OCLC 927145544. 
  3. "Agnoiology" (in en). Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1 (14 ed.). 1930. p. 351. 
  4. Roy Dilley, "The Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge in a Colonial Context", in Ways of Knowing: Anthropological Approaches to Crafting Experience and Knowledge, edited by Mark Harris (New York and Oxford, 2007), pp. 139-140.