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nescient

(adj): holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible
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26 days ago yarb said:

As Dala's most devious reflection might put it, the enthusiasm of the audience was as affectively as it was infectiously unanimous, no omniscient observer who had not become nescient.

- Louis Zukofsky, Little

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