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As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun nescience is

the absence of knowledge; ignorance, especially of orthodox beliefs.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

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    nescience

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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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