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	Ignorance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In philosophy, the study of ignorance is paired with the study of knowledge, both of which are central to epistemology.
		In humans, ignorance of another's lifeways or circumstances, failure to empathize with his or her experience, is cited in political science as one of the most common causes of conflict.
		Ignorance is often misinterpreted as a synonym of Stupidity, and is as thus often taken as an insult, when really it is, in its correct form, not an insult at all but more of a criticism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ignorance (525 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ignorance
		Ignorance is said to be invincible when a person is unable to rid himself of it notwithstanding the employment of moral diligence, that is, such as under the circumstances is, morally speaking, possible and obligatory.
		When ignorance is deliberately aimed at and fostered, it is said to be affected, not because it is pretended, but rather because it is sought for by the agent so that he may not have to relinquish his purpose.
		Ignorance of law, when one is unaware of the existence of the law itself, or at least that a particular case is comprised under its provisions.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07648a.htm (1288 words)

	Rational ignorance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rational ignorance is a term most often found in economics, particularly public choice theory, but also used in other disciplines which study rationality and choice, including philosophy (epistemology) and game theory.
		Ignorance about an issue is said to be "rational" when the cost of educating oneself about the issue sufficiently to make an informed decision can outweigh any potential benefit one could reasonably expect to gain from that decision, and so it would be irrational to waste time doing so.
		This has consequences for the quality of decisions made by large numbers of people, such as general elections, where the probability of any one vote changing the outcome is very small.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rational_ignorance (492 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Ignorance—Invincible and Vincible
		Ignorance is distinguished from mere nescience, which is a lack of knowledge that a person has no need of.
		Invincible ignorance removes culpability for the sins against faith, merely vincible ignorance diminishes culpability (sometimes to the point of being venial), crass or supine ignorance will affect culpability for them little or not at all, and hard hearted, affected ignorance will increase culpability for them.
		This is false, since invincible ignorance excuses from acts of omission (such as failure to be baptized) as well as acts of commission.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=1203 (1656 words)

	SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Does ignorance cause involuntariness? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For then, ignorance does not induce one to wish this to be done, but it just happens that a thing is at the same time done, and not known: thus in the example given (Objection 3) a man did indeed wish to kill his foe, but killed him in ignorance, thinking to kill a stag.
		Ignorance is "consequent" to the act of the will, in so far as ignorance itself is voluntary: and this happens in two ways, in accordance with the two aforesaid modes of voluntary (3).
		Ignorance is "antecedent" to the act of the will, when it is not voluntary, and yet is the cause of man's willing what he would not will otherwise.
	www.newadvent.org /summa/200608.htm (564 words)

	Jos - Overcoming Ignorance
		Ignorance is more than just the absence of knowledge, even though a lack of knowledge is often part of the condition.
		Ignorance also implies a lack of compassion, and as such it constitutes a self-centered attitude and its subsequent destructive approach to life.
		To be freed from ignorance is an awakening process - often gradual, but with brilliant moments of keen insight - and it entails the discovery of the true self and the transformation that accompanies it.
	www.taoism.net /theway/ignorance.htm (4318 words)

	In Pursuit of Ignorance \| Chabad.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Passive ignorance is abhorrent to almost everyone, and people spend the first 20 or so years of their lives in the classroom in order to immunize themselves against it.
		Essential ignorance is not a lack of awareness, but rather the awareness of a lack, and as such, it renders the mind an empty vessel prepared to receive.
		Since enlightened ignorance surpasses knowledge and wisdom, it is not knowledge or wisdom, which is to say that it is a form of ignorance.
	www.chabad.org /library/article.asp?AID=2940 (3391 words)

	Ignorance Quotes \| Ignorance Quotations \| Ignorance Sayings \| Wisdom Quotes
		To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
		The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.
		Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
	www.wisdomquotes.com /cat_ignorance.html (507 words)

	Vanquishing Ignorance
		Ignorance is not merely the lack of knowledge, but self-destructive turning away from truth in all areas of life.
		Ignorance of the true value of things and people leads us to deal only with our illusions of these elements, not what they really are.
		The very act of acknowledging their ignorance is the beginning of the recovery of a true life, recognizing that ignorance is a form of death.
	www.hermes-press.com /Perennial_Tradition/ignorance.htm (2890 words)

	Buddhism in Translations - § 26. Ignorance.
		For in the quotation, "On the arising of the depravities depends the arising of ignorance," the cause of ignorance is declared.
		Respecting this Wheel of Existence it is to be understood that the two factors ignorance and desire are its root; and that this root is twofold: the root ignorance, deriving from the past and ending with sensation; and the root desire, continuing into the future and ending with old age and death.
		For the ignorance of those who are inclined to heresy, and the desire of those who are inclined to desire, conduct to the round of rebirth.
	www.sacred-texts.com /bud/bits/bits026.htm (2024 words)

	Undressing Ignorance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She sees a parallel between the relationships of teacher and student and analyst and analysand whereby a student’s ignorance is likened to an analysand’s "repression" or "resistance" to knowledge.
		And, while Felman’s argument targets ignorance not as a lack of knowledge (I would agree with her on this point) she does characterize unknowing in a negative light as "an active refusal of information." This refusal she attributes to the student as an internalized resistance to knowledge, to say, literature, for example.
		Another hazard of Felman’s theory based largely on Lacan’s seminars and his success with stellar students in their undoubtedly amazing instances of collaborative discovery learning, is the disrespect students (already infected by half-knowledge) may show a teacher who relinquishes her authority in the classroom, even if deliberately, as a pedagogical ruse.
	www.specmind.com /vixen/undressing.htm (698 words)

	Ignorance - Invincible and Vincible (This Rock: July/August 1999)
		For example, a person who did not know the square root of 1429 would be ignorant of it if he were taking a test that required him to know the answer, but he would be nescient of it if performing a task that didn't require the number.
		Vincible ignorance may affect one's culpability for a sinful act, depending on the kind of vincibility.
		For those who have had their culpability for sins against faith removed or diminished to the point of veniality, they are not moral sins and thus will not of themselves deprive one of heaven.
	www.catholic.com /thisrock/1999/9907chap.asp (1657 words)

	Ignorance
		With the arising of the taints there is the arising of ignorance; with the cessation of the taints there is the cessation of ignorance.
		With the cessation of ignorance there is the cessation of the taints.
		Because ignorance is the root cause of dukkha...
	www.accesstoinsight.org /ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca2/avijja.html (462 words)

	Ignorance Quotes, Stupidity Sayings
		Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us. ~Christopher Andrea
		To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance. ~A. Bronson Alcott
		Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. ; ~Alfred North Whitehead
	www.quotegarden.com /ignorance.html (545 words)

	The unteachable ignorance of the red states. By Jane Smiley
		Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.
		Here is how ignorance works: First, they put the fear of God into you—if you don't believe in the literal word of the Bible, you will burn in hell.
		But by this time you don't need much encouragement—you've put all your eggs into the ignorance basket, and really, some kind of miraculous fruition (preferably accompanied by the torment of your enemies, and the ignorant always have plenty of enemies) is your only hope.
	www.slate.com /Default.aspx?id=2109218& (1397 words)

	Language Log: Deep-seeded ignorance
		Ignorance can be planted deep and thus have deep metaphorical roots, but deep-seated ignorance would have to be ignorance cut with a lot of room in the crotch, or maybe ignorance sitting in a badly-designed armchair.
		In this case, if you write about "deep-seeded ignorance", you'll be using what most educated people will take to be a misconstrual of a long-established phrase.
		The fact that roughly 4% of the population has the wrong idea about this phrase is a perfect example of the forces that lead to the formation of eggcorns.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001815.html (591 words)

	Ignorance
		Bhishma said: The person who commits sin through ignorance, who does not know that his end is at hand, and who always hates those that are of good behaviour, soon incurs infamy in the world.
		These two viz., ignorance and covetousness, know, O king, are the same (in substance).
		From one’s ignorance proceeds covetousness, and from the latter proceeds ignorance.
	www.hinduism.co.za /ignoranc.htm (330 words)

	Ignorance Apathy Greed
		As an example of the interplay between ignorance, apathy, and greed, consider the problem of pollution.
		Ignorance is reinforced by apathy, since apathetic folks don't care to obtain the knowledge which would reduce their apathy.
		Social reformers must first eliminate their own ignorance to educate themselves to gain knowledge of the basic causes and remedies for social problems, including the economics, politics, and ethics of the problems and solutions.
	www.progress.org /archive/fold21.htm (985 words)

	Logical Fallacy: Appeal to Ignorance
		An appeal to ignorance is an argument for or against a proposition on the basis of a lack of evidence against or for it.
		If there is positive evidence for the conclusion, then of course we have other reasons for accepting it, but a lack of evidence by itself is no evidence.
		It would not be an Appeal to Ignorance for you to reason that, since there is no evidence that I visited another planet, therefore I probably didn't do so.
	www.fallacyfiles.org /ignorant.html (644 words)

	Knowledge AND Ignorance: Critique of Neoclassical Economics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Herb Thompson (1997) "Ignorance and Ideological Hegemony: A Critique of Neoclassical Economics", Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 8(4): 291-305.
		Ignorance does not imply merely a lack of knowledge, but also the possibility that its antonym is being produced.
		The general acceptance of the theory in the intervening 30 years had been largely attributed to its beauty (Weinberg 1992: 98), similar to the dominance of general equilibrium theory in economics in the second half of the twentieth century.
	www.aucegypt.edu /faculty/thompson/herbtea/articles/jie2.html (5697 words)

	Ignorance - Wikiquote
		Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
		"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." ~ Thomas Jefferson
		"Ignorance is the parent of fear." ~ Herman Melville, Moby Dick
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Ignorance (584 words)

	The Veil of Ignorance
		Behind such a veil of ignorance all individuals are simply specified as rational, free, and morally equal beings.
		Thus, the key is that people make decisions based on what is good for their community as a whole, and without regard to their own self-interest (since they operate behind a veil of ignorance and don't know enough about what would benefit them).
		I think that increasingly the veil of ignorance is being lifted, and special interest groups are able to rapidly assess legislative impact and to detour or shape the legislation for their benefit.
	radio.weblogs.com /0104634/stories/2002/07/18/theVeilOfIgnorance.html (419 words)

	Urban Dictionary: ignorance
		"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise" is a saying of which most people know only three words.
		Taken out of context as they are, these seem to promote willful ignorance in all matters, yet are often taken as absolute truth.
		Ignorance people are usually proud of people ignorant, one of the saddest things that our pathetic world has acomplished.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=ignorance&r=f (302 words)

	God Attacks Our Ignorance
		The form of ignorance that exists because the person has never known is a common form of spiritual ignorance, and it has always been common.
		The fourth form of ignorance is the ignorance of wrong expectations.
		The fifth form of ignorance is the ignorance of specialization.
	www.westarkchurchofchrist.org /chadwell/1999/091299pm.htm (1310 words)

	SPIRITUAL IGNORANCE
		The dense forest of ignorance has many anthills occupied by poisonous snakes in the form of cravings for sense pleasures, many hidden holes and traps known as death, and many forest-fires of repeated pain and suffering.
		In this forest of ignorance roam thieves known as lust, greed, anger, pride, attachment, enviousness, violence, stubborn mindedness; with the most deadly enemy called false ego.
		Once the ignorance is dispelled, or once the mind is purified of egoism and illumined with the Spiritual Wisdom, its all misapprehensions end.
	www.gurbani.org /webart45.htm (2464 words)

	Ignorance
		Meanwhile Ulysses perished himself with a nostalgy which is nothing else but the pain of mutual ignorance.
		Cut off from 20 years of life, from a part of herself, Irina recognizes that nobody takes care of her odyssey.
		Ignorance is that her friend Sylvie doesn`t understand that she feels at home in France, ignorance is also that Irina and Josef have wrong expectations while travelling to Czechia.
	www.kundera.de /english/Bibliography/Ignorance/ignorance.html (300 words)

	Quotez - Subject Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
		If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.
		Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
	www.uk.digiserve.com /quotations/search.cgi?type=Subject&terms=ignorance (239 words)

	No. 1840: Questions and Ignorance
		Once a student develops the rare talent for seeking his or her own ignorance, teachers become irrelevant.
		Then I heard someone say that the second law of thermodynamics gave an "index of the order of the disunity of the universe" (whatever that meant!) Now I had two wildly different answers to one question.
		My ignorance opened up before me, and knowledge was ready to flow in a way it had not flowed before.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1840.htm (566 words)

	Ignorance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is possible, though, that simple factual ignorance is in reality a more significant cause of political error – at least, in the West – than any of those.
		We have previously conjectured that many opponents of the liberation of Iraq are literally unaware of the case in favour.
		Thinking ignorance is the bane of the western world, and the rest of the world for that matter too.
	www.settingtheworldtorights.com /node/490 (717 words)

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