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Nicholas Of Cusa (1401-1464) argued that knowledge is learned ignorance (docta igtwrantia), since God, the ultimate object of knowledge, is above the opposites by which human reason grasps the objects of nature. He also asserted that the universe is boundless, and has no circumference, thus breaking with Middle Ages cosmology.
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Nicholas Of Cusa was a German philosopher, important in the transition from scholasticism to the philosophy of modem times.
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