Agnoiology

Agnoiology (from the Greek ἀγνοέω, meaning ignorance) is the theoretical study of the quality and conditions of ignorance, 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), as a foil to the theory of knowledge, or epistemology.

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