nescience

英語

詞源

源自拉丁語 nescientia，源自nescire的現在分詞。

發音

• (英國) IPA^(幫助)：/ˈnɛsɪəns/
• (美國) IPA^(幫助)：/ˈnɛʃəns/

名詞

nescience (可數 和 不可數，複數 nesciences)

1. 無知，無學（尤指沒有正統的信念）

   Better to have honest nescience than to have militant ignorance.

   誠實的無知比激進的無知好。

   • 1911, Ralph Barton Perry, "Notes on the Philosophy of Henri Bergson," The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, vol. 8, no. 26, p. 720,

     To lapse from knowledge into nescience is always possible—there is no law of God or man forbidding it.

   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     Algernon, in a condition of masculine nescience, lets himself become engaged to a woman of whom he knows nothing.

2. (哲學) 不可知
   • 1895, J. G. Schurman, "Agnosticism," The Philosophical Review, vol. 4, no. 3, p. 244,

     The theory of nescience is but the obverse of the fact of science.

相關詞彙

• nescient

延伸閱讀

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024), 「nescience」, 《線上詞源詞典》（Online Etymology Dictionary）

法語

發音

• IPA^(幫助)：/nɛ.sjɑ̃s/, /ne.sjɑ̃s/

名詞

nescience f (複數 nesciences)

1. 無知，無學
2. (哲學) 不可知

延伸閱讀

• 查看「nescience」在le Trésor de la langue française informatisé（《法語數字化寶庫》）中的釋義。