# Actual Freedom – Definitions

# Definitions ## Agnition; Agnogenic; Agnorance ## Agnosic; Agnostic; Agnosy; Anosognosia Ignoration/ Ignorement; Inscience; Nescience/ Nescient Agnition: • agnition (n.), (obs.): recognition, acknowledgment [fr. Latin agnitio, fr. agnitus, past part. of agnoscere, ‘to recognize, acknowledge’, fr. ad- + gnoscere, ‘to know’]. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). • agnize (v. t.): to recognize; to acknowledge; ‘I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity’ ~ Shak. (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary). Agnogenic: agnogenic (adj.): of unknown origin or aetiology; cryptogenic; idiopathic. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary). Agnorance: • agnorance (n.): the combination of arrogance and ignorance; to be clueless and prideful of one’s attitude at the same time; embracing the concept that you believe you are way more important than you are in reality; a confidence in not knowing as much as you portray; [e.g.]: “The author’s agnorance was on complete display as they took credit for creating a word”. (by Roland P. Hawkins; September 7, 2017). ~ (Urban English Dictionary). agnorant (adj.): simultaneously ignorant and arrogant; [e.g.]: “The doings of some persons are all kinds of agnorant, mixed with a vacuous oral character which can make you feel a headlock”. (page 256⁽⁰¹⁾, “The Reign of Svengali‎”, by Papa Seyni Faye; 2015, BoD Editions); “I doubt that I am the first person to use the word ‘agnorance’, however I am 99.9% sure I am the first fool to write a book with that name in the title and claim to have defined the word appropriately”. (page 7⁽⁰²⁾‎, “Agnorance: Memoirs, Musings and Madness”, by Doug Sheehy; 2017, Lulu); “On Sept. 07, 2017, a contributor to that webpage, Roland P. Hawkins, put the word into a sentence: ‘The author’s agnorance was on complete display as he took credit for creating a word’. I seriously enjoyed learning this new slang word... I enjoyed even more finding out that Roland P. Hawkins is a pseudonym for, well, Doug Sheehy, which I found out on page seven of his book. ‘What kind of person claims to be agnorant you might ask’, Sheehy wrote in his book. ‘One who is bold enough to create his own pseudonym and yet still arrogant enough to put his name on the title of the book’. This line prompted my first laugh while reading his 255-page book”. (“Are You Infected by the Social Disease of ‘Agnorance’?” by Jerry Davich; 2018, Chicago Tribune‎⁽⁰³⁾); “And if I say I don’t want to be around someone, it’s because I know they’re an idiot... they go on with their lives unchanged because they’re arrogant and ignorant (I’m going to coin the phrase ‘agnorant’ henceforth). Me, on the other hand, it affects for much longer, because I’m a depressive, and things like this stick with me”. (“Down Days”, by Craig Hallam⁽⁰⁴⁾; 2019, Inspired Quill). [etymology: a blend of ignorant +‎ arrogant; (usage note): not to be confused with the Latin verb agnōrant (the third-person plural pluperfect active indicative of agnōscō, from ad- + (g)nōscō) which typically means: they recognise, realise or discern; they become acquainted with; they know, perceive, acknowledge; they claim]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). ⁽⁰¹⁾[https://books.google.com./?id=HirqCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA256]. ⁽⁰²⁾‎[https://books.google.com/?id=P5NBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA7]. ⁽⁰³⁾[www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-davich-agnorance-book-doug-sheehy-st-0905-story.html]. ⁽⁰⁴⁾[https://books.google.com/?id=s_PRDwAAQBAJ&q=agnorant] . Agnosic: agnosic (adj.): of or relating to agnosy. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). Agnosic: • agnosic (adj.): of or relating to agnosy. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • agnosy (n.): ignorance; specifically, an ignorance common to all humankind. [from Greek ἀγνωσία (agnosia), ‘ignorance’, from ἀ- (a-), privative + γνῶσις (gnósis), ‘knowing’]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). Agnostic: ‘agnostic: a person who is uncertain or non-committal about a particular thing’. (Oxford Dictionary). Agnosy: agnosy (n.): ignorance; specifically, an ignorance common to all humankind. [from Greek ἀγνωσία, ‘ignorance’, from ἀ-, privative + γνῶσις, ‘knowing’]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). Agnosy: • agnosy (n.): ignorance; specifically, an ignorance common to all humankind. [from Greek ἀγνωσία, ‘ignorance’, from ἀ-, privative + γνῶσις (gnósis), ‘knowing’]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • agnosy (n.; rare): ignorance, especially that which is common to a group or category of people; [e.g.]: “The state of agnosy is one of darkness, contrasting with the light which symbolises gnosis”. (from “The Krater and the Grail: Hermetic Sources of the Parzival”, Henry & Renée Kahane, in collaboration with Angelina Pietrangeli; 1965, Urbana, University of Illinois Press); “Just as agnosy is the great evil to the Hermetist, so is Parzival’s zwivel at the root of all his tribulations”. (page 340, “Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie”=‘Journal for Romance Philology’, founded by Gustav Gröber in 1877, Vol. 79). ~ (Word-Sense Online Dictionary). • agnosy (n.): ignorance; especially ignorance shared by the whole human race. ~ (Luciferous Logolepsy). • agnosy (n.): ignorance. ~ (Forthright’s Phrontistery). • agnosy (n.; pl. agnosies): a lack of spiritual understanding or insight; a lack of enlightenment; [e.g.]: “Triad above all substance, super-divine and above the good, guide of the Christians into the Divine Wisdom, conducting us to that above agnosy, i.e., the unknowable, to the highest clearness and the super-eminent height”. (page 461, “Theosophical Review”; Vol. 12; 1893); “Just as agnosy is the great evil to the Hermetist, so is Parzival’s zwivel at the root of all his tribulations”. (page 340, “Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie”; 1963); “Before man receives the grace of revelation, he lives in agnosy; he does not know God, the gnostic God who is his father and the source of revelation; he does not know himself as the son of God”. (page 45, “The Krater and the Grail: Hermetic Sources of the Parzival”, Henry Kahane, Renée Kahane; 1984); “And then (the man), delivered as much from that which is seen as from that which sees, penetrates into the true mystic obscurity and darkness of the agnosy beyond”. (page 458, “Qabbalah: The Philosophical Writings of Solomon Ben Yehudah Ibn Gebirol”, Isaac Myer; 2015); 2. (neurology): a deficit in the ability to perceive; [e.g.]: “This ‘mimic agnosy’ will be removed only through very prolonged maturation and learning”. (page 17, “Recognition of Facial Expression”, Martha Davis; 1975); “Music perception disorders from neurological origin (the three levels of musical perception désintégration considered as auditory agnosy)”. (page 467, “Psychology, Psychopathology, Psychiatry”; 1985); “Neuropsychological examination performed two weeks after the stroke revealed normal speech and auditory verbal comprehension and no number dyslexia, acalculia, colour and digital agnosy”. (from “The Italian Journal of Neurological Sciences: Supplementum”; 1993); “These somato-agnosies vary widely, and somato-paraphrenia is one of the examples of this inability to recognise a part of the body as one’s own”. (from “A Husserlian, Neurophenomenologic Approach to Embodiment”, J. L. Petit; 2010, in ‘Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science’); “The problems related to the visual-spatial difficulties are due to the loss of spatial references, either due to problems of the visual field loss or perceptive problems (agnosy), attention problems or difficulties of the executive function, which cause an inefficient search of information”. (from “Initiation of the Most Appropriate Post-stroke Rehabilitation”, L. Gangoiti, I. M. Villafruela; in 2010, ‘Diabetologḯa’, Vol. 26); “These advantages also play a role in treatment for special indication such as in patients with neurological problems (e.g. Parkinson’s disease), in whom a total replacement leads to a worsening of the underlying disease whereas compartmental reconstruction avoids the effect of somato-agnosy (loss of sensation of a body part)”. (page 3, “Small Implants in Knee Reconstruction”, Norberto Confalonieri, Sergio Romagnoli; 2013); 3. (neurology): a patient suffering from an agnosy; [e.g.]: “Finally, optic aphasics are usually described as being unimpaired in everyday life, whereas agnosies are often noticeably handicapped by their inability to recognise objects, people, and locales”. (number 4, “Superadditive Effects of Multiple Lesions in a Connectionist Architecture: Implications for the Neuropsychology of Optic Aphasia”, M. Sitton, M. C. Mozer, M. J. Farahin; 2000 October, ‘Psychological Review’, Vol. 107); 4. (rare): ignorance, especially that which is common to a group or category of people; [e.g.]: “Your logic is faulty, reflecting cachexia and the general agnosy which plagues your race”. (page 14, “Porter Gulch Review”, Vol. 3; 1987, Issue 1); “That Organon remains largely unstudied and even ignored reveals the real agnosy of our institutions and teachers charged with training future generations of homœopaths”. (from “The Importance of Hahnemann’s Organon”, George Dimitriadis; 1993); “No historical anecdote had ever brought home to Fiben so well just how much agnosy and craziness poor human mels and fems had endured”. (from “The Uplift War”, David Brin; 2011). ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). • agnosy (n.): agnosy is another word for ignorance and agnoiology is the study of human ignorance. ~ (Farlex Trivia Dictionary). • agnoiology (n.; metaphysics): the doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary). • agnoiology (n.; philosophy): the theory of ignorance. [C19: from Greek a-, ‘without’ + gnōsis, ‘knowledge’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • agnoiology, agnoeology (n.; archaic): the study of human ignorance. ~ (Ologies & Isms Dictionary). • agnoiology (n.): in metaphysics, the doctrine or theory of ignorance, which seeks to determine what we are necessarily ignorant of; [e.g.]: “We must examine and fix what ignorance is—what we are, and can be, ignorant of. And thus we are thrown upon an entirely new research, constituting an intermediate section of philosophy which we term the agnoiology, or theory of ignorance (λόγος τῆς ἄγνοιας—the theory of true ignorance)”. (James Frederick Ferrier, 1808-1864, “Institute Of Metaphysics; The Theory of Knowing and Being”, p. 51). [better *agnœology, from Greek ἄγνοια (ágnoia), ‘ignorance’ (see agnœa) + -λογια (-logia), from λέγειν (légein), ‘speak of’; see -ology]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • Agnoite (n.): see Agnoëte. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • Agnoëtæ (n. pl.): 1. a Christian sect of the fourth century, which denied the omniscience of the Supreme Being, maintaining that God knows the past only by memory, and the future only by inference from the present; 2. a sect of the sixth century, followers of Themistius, deacon of Alexandria, who, on the authority of Mark xiii. 32 (“But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father”), held that Christ, as man, was ignorant of many things, and specifically of the time of the day of judgment. Other forms are Agnoïtœ and Agnoïtes. [Medieval Latin; also improperly Agnoitœ; Greek Αγνοηται (Agnoeítai), ‘heretics so named’, from ἀγνοειν (agnoein), ‘be ignorant’, from ἀγνοος (agnoos), ‘not knowing’; see agnea]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • Agnoëte, Agnoïte (n.): one of the Agnoïtes. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • agnoëtism (n.): the doctrinal system of the Agnoëtæ. [from Agnoëtæ + -ism]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • agnoea (n.): in pathology, the state of a patient who does not recognise persons or things. [New Latin, Greek ἅγνοια (ágnoia), ‘want of perception’, ‘ignorance’, from *ἅγνοος (ágnoos), ‘not knowing’ + ἀ- privative + *ἀγνοος (agnoos), νόος, (nóos) contracted νονς (nons), ‘perception’, ‘mind’, akin to English know; see nous and know]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • agnosy (n.): miration⁽*⁾ of a particular part of someone’s body. ~ (Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words; Gathered from Numerous and Diverse Authoritative Sources, by Mrs. Byrne; edited, with an introduction by Mr. Byrne; 1974, Josefa Heifetz Byrne, University Books, Secaucus, N.J.). ⁽*⁾miration (n.; pl. mirations): the act of mirating (i.e., feeling or expressing surprise or admiration); [e.g.]: “He made a great miration about the fish he caught”. [etymology: probably short for admiration]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). • mirate (intr.v.; Midland): to feel or express surprise or admiration—used with about, at, on, over; [e.g.]: “She mirated at the size of the potatoes”. [etymology: probably back-formation from miration]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). • miration (n.; pl. mirations): (Southern US, Midland US, uncommon): display of surprise or wonderment, of marvelling at something; commotion; [e.g.]: “Reaching the foot of the hill I landed in the midst of an Indian village. I almost jumped out of that buggy when all the dogs in that village commenced barking at once—the women and children came out, stared and ‘made mirations’”. (page 5, “Hettingers Dental News”; 1919); [e.g.]: “Your skin. Your hair. Your teefs. Everday it something else to make miraton over”. (page 18, “The Color Purple‎”, Alice Walker; 1985, Pocket Books). [etymology: since the late 1800s: related to mirate; usually said to be a shortening of admiration; ultimately from Latin mīrātiō, mīror, ‘marvel at’]. ~ (Word-Sense Online Dictionary). • mirate (v.; mirates, mirating, mirated): (Southern US, Midland US, uncommon): to marvel at; [e.g.]: “With Bud in her arms and Babe at her heels, she rushed from one part of the court to another, laughing boisterously at Paulo’s monkey pranks, and ‘mirating’ over Francesca’s tawdry finery”. (page 334, “Judy’s Mardi Gras”, M.E.M. Davis, in ‘Wide Awake’, vol. 36; Dec. 1892-May 1893, D. Lothrop & Co., Boston); “I should have sensed the waves of embarrassment she was radiating. But I didn’t. I went right on ‘mirating’ till I finally got around to saying they were ‘lovely’. Well, that was all my wife could take. ‘You’ve said enough’, she remarked, drily”. (page 209, “My Affair with a Weekly” (1960), ‘Good Intentions’, Weimar Jones, in The North Carolina Miscellany; 1962, University of North Carolina Press); “That paper-doll mother was still mirating at her own flesh and blood having lice. Rosacoke smiled and thought, ‘That is the one funny thing since Heywood Betts and his Honolulu shirt’”. (page 312, “A Singular Family; Rosacoke and Her Kin”, Reynolds Price; 1999, Scribner Paperback Fiction, Simon & Schuster Inc., New York). [etymology: since the late 1800s; related to miration; ultimately from Latin mīrātiō, mīror, ‘marvel at’]. ~ (Word-Sense Online Dictionary). (left-clicking the yellow rectangles with the capital ‘U’ opens each in a new web page). Anosognosia: Anosognosia is a neurological disorder that causes the patient to be unable to recognize the existence of another disorder that he/she suffers from (the word comes from the Greek ‘nosos, ‘disease’ + gnosis, ‘knowledge’; an-/a- is a negative prefix). So, patients can be agnosic for colours, ‘colour agnosia’; agnosic for objects, ‘object agnosia’; agnosic for faces, ‘prosopagnosia⁽*⁾’ (from Greek prosopon, ‘face’ + agnosia, ‘inability to recognize/identify’) etcetera. Originally the term referred only to a situation where brain damage leaves the person partially paralysed yet they are completely unaware of their deficit and will deny that anything is wrong with them – it generally occurs with extensive damage to the right hemisphere, leaving the left half of the body extensively paralysed, whereas the same pattern of damage to the left hemisphere will result in similar paralysis to the right half of the body although there is no lost awareness of disability – but has, in popular usage, come to cover such things as what the term alexithymia, for instance, more properly refers to. ⁽*⁾agnosic for faces, ‘prosopagnosia’: [Jane Goodall]: ‘I suffer from an embarrassing, curiously humbling neurological condition called prosopagnosia, which, translated, means I have a problem in face recognition. I used to think, that it was due to some mental laziness, and I desperately tried to memorize the faces of people I met ... Quite by chance, when talking to a friend, I found out that he suffered from the same problem. I could not believe it. Then I discovered that my own sister, Judy, knew similar embarrassment. Perhaps, others did also. I wrote to the well-known neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks. Had he ever heard of such an unusual condition? Not only had he heard of it—he suffered from it himself. And his situation was far more extreme than mine’. (pp. xiii-xiv, ‘Reason for Hope’; Goodall J, Berman P (2000); London: Thorsons. ISBN 0722540426). Ignoration: [Dictionary Definitions]: • ignoration (n.): the act of ignoring. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • ignoration (n.): 1. an act or action of ignoring; [e.g.]: “Changed from complete ignoration of my presence to an almost pathetic agreement with every word I said”. (Harold Joseph Laski; 1893-1950); 2. complete or utter ignorance; [e.g.]: “The ignoration of the true relation of each organism to its environment”. (Alfred North Whitehead; 1861-1947). [from ignore + -ation; from Latin ignoration-, ignoratio, from ignoratus (past participle of ignorare) + -io, ‘-ion’]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). • ignoration (n.): 1. the action of ignoring something, or the state of being ignored; 2. the state of being ignorant (=unknowledgeable or uneducated; not knowing (a fact or facts), unaware of something; (obsolete): unknown; undiscovered; resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly); (derived terms): ignoration of the elench. [etymology: ignore +‎ -ation]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). • ignoration (n.): 1. the act of ignoring; also, the state of being ignored; [e.g.]: “It is accustomed to simplify its problems by the method of abstraction... and by a long course of successful ignoration it may have acquired a habit of thinking it can actually exclude, instead of only abstract, these disturbing causes”. (Sir Oliver Lodge, in “Proceedings from the Society of Psychical Research”, XVII. 43); 2. a want of precise discrimination of an object from others; the refraining from precisely specifying what a proposed object of imagination shall be; ignoration of co-ordinates: (a) a method in analytical geometry in which a single letter represents the quantity which being equated to zero gives the equation to any given line, circle, or other locus; (b) the dynamical theory of generalised co-ordinates; ignoration of the elench (ignoratio elenchi⁽*⁾), in logic, a fallacy which consists in refuting not the position of the antagonist, but another more or less similar position; thus, if one party maintains it is dangerous to base the definition of a word upon its derivation, and the other party replies by showing how derivations frequently throw great light upon the meanings of words, this reply is an ignoration of the elench [= Spanish ignoracion, from Latin ignoratio(n-), ‘ignorance’, from ignōrare, ‘not to know’, ‘have no knowledge of’, ‘mistake’, ‘take no notice of’, ‘ignore’, from ignārus, ‘not knowing’, from in-, privative + -guārus, ‘knowing’ (Greek γνωρίςειν, ‘make known’), from *gno-scere, ‘no-scere’ = Greek γίγνώσκειν = English ‘know’, see know]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). __________ ⁽*⁾elench (n.): a refutation of an argument by proving the contrary of its conclusion, esp. syllogistically; an instance of sophistry. [C16; Latin ignōrātiō elenchī, lit. ‘an ignorance of proof’, translating Greek elenchou, ‘agnoia’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Ignorement/Ignoration: ignorement (n.): the act of ignoring, or the state of being ignored; ignoration (n.): the act of ignoring; also, the state of being ignored. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). Inscience: Inscience (n.): inscience and nescience both mean ignorance, or the absence of knowledge; (adj.): inscient; see also related terms for ignorance; (viz.: agnosy, agnoiology: agnosy is another word for ignorance and agnoiology is the study of human ignorance). ~ (Farlex Trivia Dictionary). Nescience: nescience(n.): 1. the condition of being ignorant; lack of knowledge or learning; (synonyms): benightedness, ignorance, ignorantness, illiteracy, illiterateness; 2. the condition of being uninformed or unaware; (synonyms): ignorance, obliviousness, unknowing, unknowingness, unfamiliarity. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Nescient: nescient (adj.): without education or knowledge; (synonyms): ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unschooled, untaught. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). 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