ACATALEPSIA, Acatalepsy, in Philosophy, Incomprehensibleness; or the Impossibility of comprehending or conceiving a thing. See COMPREHENSION.
The Pyrrhonians and Sceptics, and even the Ancient Academy, asserted an absolute Acatalepsia: All human Science or Knowledge, according to them, went no further than to Appearances and Verisimilitude.
See PYRRHONIAN, SCEPTIC, and ACADEMY.
They declaimed much against the Senses; and charged them with a principal Hand in reducing and leading us into Error. See SENSE, ERROR, TRUTH, FALSHOOD, DOUBTING, &c.
The Word is a Compound of the Privative α (alpha), and κατάληψις (katalēpsis), deprehendo, I find out; of κατά (kata), and λαμβάνω (lambanō), capio, I take. See CATALEPSIS.
