Agnoiology Explained

Agnoiology (from the Greek ἀγνοέω, meaning ignorance) is the theoretical study of the quality and conditions of ignorance,^{[1] [2]} 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),^[3] as a foil to the theory of knowledge, or epistemology.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Agnoiology . 1 . 378.
2. Book: Pojman, Louis P.. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. 2015. 978-1-139-05750-9. Audi. Robert. Third. New York City. 17. Agnoiology. 927145544.
3. Encyclopedia: 1930 . Agnoiology . . 14 . 1 . 351 . en.
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.