Living here means nescience simply: 't is next life that helps to learn.
The phenomenalist cannot arrest our inquiry by simply drawing the veil of nescience over it.
Australian nescience is an accidental result of some animistic beliefs, an opinion chiefly represented by Mr. A.
Geographical extension of the nescience of physiological fatherhood (pp.
On the Defence of Nescience in Theology, by Herbert Spencer and Henry L.
This also is an argument for nescience in theology, in the presumed interests of revelation.
But whether Nescience be active or inactive, no difference is made thereby in the thing itself (viz.
Nescience declares--in the subsequent passage, 'But when the Self only is all this, how should he see another?
Nor can Nescience by itself be the cause, and it is of a uniform nature.
Release which is due to Nescience is discarded, and Release is shown to be of the nature of the eternally free Self, it cannot be charged with the imperfection of non-eternality.
For as long as Nescience remains, so long the soul is affected with definite attributes, &c.
Exactly analogous is the case of the individual soul which is in reality one with the highest soul, although Nescience makes it appear different.
Regarding those on the other hand who have freed themselves from the stains of Nescience desire aversion and so on, it is said that they have to resort to that, viz.
Accordingly the gift of counsel is in the blessed, in so far as God preserves in them the knowledge that they have, and enlightens them in their nescience of what has to be done.
From this nesciencethe angel's mind is cleansed, according to Dionysius (Coel.
For God moves the mind of the wayfarer in matters of action, by soothing the pre-existing anxiety of doubt; whereas there is simple nescience in the mind of the blessed as regards the things they do not know.
Nescience is not always a defect, but only when it is about what one ought to know, and it is a part of almsgiving to supply this defect by instruction.
The knowledge of our nescience as to the psychical condition of our first thinking ancestors may suggest hesitation as to taking it for granted that early man was on our own or on the modern savage level in 'psychical' experience.
I do not know whether the other northern tribes share the Arunta nescience of procreation, or not.
These tribes, socially less advanced than the Arunta, have not the Arunta nescience of the facts of procreation, a nescience which I regard as merely the consequence and corollary of the Arunta philosophy of reincarnation.
Further, nescience is the cause of estimating falsely.
Hence, no ignorance would have been in them, but only nescience in regard to certain matters.
Such nescience was even in the holy angels, according to Dionysius (Coel.
For the perversity of the demons comes of their not being subject to the Divine wisdom; while nescience is in the angels as regards things knowable, not naturally but supernaturally.
They are now monarch of Rag-fair, chief gyasticuti of the boundless realm of Nescience and Noodledom.
Schurman, Agnosticism, 100, speaks of "the farce of nescience playing at omniscience in setting the bounds of science.
With this Socinian doctrine some Arminians agree, as McCabe, in his Foreknowledge of God, and in his Divine Nescience of Future Contingencies a Necessity.
Against the doctrine of the divine nescience we urge not only our fundamental conviction of God's perfection, but the constant testimony of Scripture.
An Arminian example of this denial is found in McCabe, Foreknowledge of God, and Divine Nescience of Future Contingencies a Necessity.
Can the Churinga nanja and reincarnation beliefs have set up nescience of obvious facts among the Arunta?
These facts produce no nescience among the more primitive tribes with female descent, simply because these primitive tribes do not share the far from primitive Arunta philosophy of eternal reincarnation.
The proof of Arunta primitiveness, the only proof, has been their nescience of the facts of generation.
However that may be, the Arunta nescience about reproduction is not caused by the facts which, according to Mr. Frazer, are common to them with other savages.
Yet they, quite as much as the Arunta, are subject to the causes which, according to Mr. Frazer, produce the Arunta nescience of the facts of procreation.
The text continues, 'Having attained the being of its being, then he is non-different from the highest Self; his difference is founded on Nescience only.
To sum up: The root of bondage is the unreal view of plurality which itself has its root in Nescience that conceals the true being of Brahman.
But this interpretation is inappropriate, since for those who hold that creation proceeds from Brahman connected with some power or Nescience or a limiting adjunct (upâdhi) no such primâ facie view can arise.
The doctrine, again, that Nescience is put an end to by the cognition of Brahman being the Self of all can in no way be upheld; for as bondage is something real it cannot be put an end to by knowledge.
Moreover, if the distinction of Nescience from the Self is not real, it follows that Nescience and the Self are essentially one.
The cognition and nescience of the world, are the causes of the bondage and liberation of the soul, and these again are productive of the transmigration and final emancipation of the animal spirit.
The philosophical poems, in which love is made all in all, and knowledge is reduced to nescience follow by logical evolution from principles, the influence of which we can detect even in his earlier works.
