apraxia

What it means

1. uncountableusuallymedicineTotal or partial loss of the ability to perform coordinated movements or manipulate objects in the absence of motor or sensory impairment; specifically, a disorder of motor planning.
2. uncountableusuallyhuman sciencesThe state of total inaction caused by holding global skepticism.

   But how does the skeptic live without knowledge or at least belief? It seems that the skeptical challenges, though theoretically unimpeachable, have objectionable practical consequences. Call this the apraxia problem for skepticism.

   2020 June 9, Kelly Arenson, The Routledge Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN

In a sentence

But how does the skeptic live without knowledge or at least belief? It seems that the skeptical challenges, though theoretically unimpeachable, have objectionable practical consequences. Call this the apraxia problem for skepticism.

2020 June 9, Kelly Arenson, The Routledge Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Indo-European*né
2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
3. Proto-Hellenic*ə-
4. Ancient Greekᾰ̓- (ă-)
5. Proto-Indo-European*per-
6. Proto-Indo-European*pr̥h₂-k-yé-ti
7. Proto-Hellenic*prā́t͏̌t͏̌ō
8. Ancient Greekπρᾱ́σσω (prā́ssō)
9. Ancient Greekπρᾶξῐς (prâxĭs)
10. Ancient Greekᾰ̓πρᾱξῐ́ᾱ (ăprāxĭ́ā)
11. Englishapraxia

From Ancient Greek ἀπραξία (apraxía, “inaction”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + πρᾶξις (prâxis, “activity”) + -ία (-ía, abstract noun suffix). By surface analysis, a- + -praxia.