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Definition of: acatalepsy
(ə·kat′ə·lep′sē) noun Philos.
The incomprehensibility of all things; specifically, among the Skeptics, the doctrine that all human knowledge is only probable and that all positive judgment should be suspended. [<Gk. akatalē psia <a- not + kata- thoroughly + lēpsis a seizing.
See CATALEPSY.]
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