ἄγνοια
agnoia
want of perception, ignorance
Appears 83 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἄγνοια, ἡ, (v. γιγνώσκω) A. want of perception, ignorance, ἀγνοίᾳ Ag. 1596; ἀγνοίας ὕπο Supp. 499; ἣν ὑπʼ ἀγνοίας ὁρᾷς whom seeing you pretend not to know, Tr. 419; ἀγνοίᾳ ἐξαμαρτάνειν Cyr. 3.1.38, cf. 8.92, Av. 577, 9.64, etc.; opp. ἐπιστήμη, Tht. 199d, APr. 66b26; ἄ. κενότης ἐστὶ τῆς περὶ ψυχὴν ἕξεως R. 585b; διʼ ἄγνοιαν πράττειν, opp. ἀγνοῶν, EN 1110b25: in Logic, ἡ τοῦ ἐλέγχου ἄ. ignoratio elenchi, ignorance of the conditions of a valid proof, SE 168a18, al. II. mistaken conduct, a mistake, 18.133, Ep. 2.19, 27.2.2. [In Poets sts. ἀγνοίᾱ, Tr. 350, Ph. 129; old Att., acc. to Dion.Fr. 11, cf. 191; Ion. ἀγνοίη ]
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