Ignorabimus in the context of "Unknowable"

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⭐ Core Definition: Ignorabimus

The Latin maxim ignoramus et ignorabimus, meaning "we do not know and will not know", represents the idea that scientific knowledge is limited. It was popularized by Emil du Bois-Reymond, a German physiologist, in his 1872 address "Über die Grenzen des Naturerkennens" ("The Limits of Science").

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πŸ‘‰ Ignorabimus in the context of Unknowable

In philosophy, unknowability is the possibility of inherently unaccessible knowledge. It addresses the epistemology of that which cannot be known. Some related concepts include the limits of knowledge, ignorabimus, unknown unknowns, the halting problem, and chaos theory.

Nicholas Rescher provides the most recent focused scholarship for this area in Unknowability: An Inquiry into the Limits of Knowledge, where he offered three high level categories, logical unknowability, conceptual unknowability, and in-principle unknowability.

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