Agnoiology

This article is about the 19th-century epistemological theory of ignorance. For the 20th-century study of culturally-conditioned ignorance, see agnotology.

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]

See also

• Agnotology