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Nescience vs Unawareness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between nescience and unawareness

is that nescience is the absence of knowledge; ignorance, especially of orthodox beliefs while unawareness is the state of being unaware.

nescience

English

Noun

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  • The absence of knowledge; ignorance, especially of orthodox beliefs.
  • * 1911 , , "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.
  • (philosophy) The doctrine that nothing is actually knowable.
  • * 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.

    Related terms

    * nescient

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    unawareness

    English

    Noun

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  • The state of being unaware