Agnoiology

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Study of ignorance

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::summary Study of ignorance ::

Agnoiology (from the Greek ἀγνοέω, meaning ignorance) is the theoretical study of the quality and conditions of ignorance, 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), as a foil to the theory of knowledge, or epistemology.

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  2. Pojman, Louis P.. (2015). "[[The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy]]". [[Cambridge University Press]].
  3. (1930). "Agnoiology".
  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.

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