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acatalepsy|əˈkætəlɛpsɪ|
[ad. med.L. acatalēpsia, a. Gr. ἀκαταληψία incomprehensibleness, f. ἀ not + κατά thoroughly + λῆψις a seizing.]
Incomprehensibility:—a term of the Sceptic philosophers; the correlative of agnosticism, which is said of the mental faculty, while acatalepsy is the property of the unknowable object.
1605Bacon Adv. of Learning (1640) Pref. 37 Those very schooles of Philosophers, who downe-right maintained Acatalepsie or Incomprehensibility. 1676in Phil. Trans. XI. 791 The Academicks, who professing an Acatalepsy, affirmed this one thing only to be certain, Nihil certi sciri posse. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1871) I. 369 Arcesilaus could from Plato's works deduce his own theory of the incomprehensibility of all things: the acatalepsy. |