ἀπειρία

apeiria

want of skill, inexperience, ignorance

Appears 23 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Laws 6
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Book I 1
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639e5
Book III 1
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676a8
Book V 1
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733d5
Book VII 2
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818e9
819a4
Book XI 1
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936d1
Republic 4
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Book III 1
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406c2
Book VI 1
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487b4
Book IX 2
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585a4
585a5
Gorgias 2
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448c6
518d1
Hippias Major 2
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293d2
300c2
Theaetetus 2
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174c5
167b3
Cratylus 1
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404c6
Critias 1
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107b1
Epinomis 1
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990a4
Letters 1
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316c8
Parmenides 1
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158d6
Phaedo 1
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101d1
Philebus 1
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16c10

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀπειρία (A), ἡ, (ἄπειρος A) opp. ἐμπειρία, A. want of skill, inexperience, ignorance, Hp. Lex 4, Th. 1.80; ἐμπειρία τε τῆς ἀπειρίας κρατεῖ E. Fr. 619; ἡ μὲν ἐμπειρία τέχνην ἐποίησεν ἡ δʼ ἀπειρία τύχην Polus ap. Arist. Metaph. 981a5; ὑπὸ ἀπειρίας Pl. Tht. 167b; διʼ ἀπειρίαν Id. Grg. 518d. 2. c. gen. rei, τοῦ θανεῖν E. Fr. 816.10; ἀ. μέθης want of skill to carry it discreetly, Antipho 4.3.2; ἀ. ἔργου And. 3.2; μουσικῆς ἀπειρίᾳ Philetaer. 18; διʼ ἀπειρίαν τοῦ ἐρωτᾶν καὶ ἀποκρίνεσθαι Pl. R. 487b; ἀπειρείῃσι νόοιο (sic) Epigr.Gr. 1078.5 (Adana).

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