Acatalepsy

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Acatalepsy \A*cat"a*lep`sy\, n. [Gr. ?; 'a priv. + ? to seize,
     comprehend.]
     Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the
     ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never
     amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
     [1913 Webster]