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| | Ignorance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Despite the admonition in some faiths that ignorance is bliss, most religions are adamant that it does more harm than good. | | | Secular philosophies generally condemn ignorance as illustrated in the classic story, A Christmas Carol where the Ghost of Christmas Present reveals to Scrooge the childlike personifications of the major afflictions of the world, want and ignorance, and the fact that the latter is more harmful. | | | In a society with a strong hierarchy or caste system, ignorance of the concerns of those one does not work or deal with directly may aid labour specialization, reduce jealousy and dissent, and otherwise serve the interests of social harmony. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorance
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| | Ignorance |
| | Because ignorance is the root cause of dukkha... | | | 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. |
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca2/avijja.html
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : Ignorance—Invincible and Vincible |
| | 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. | | | For those who have had their culpability for sins against faith removed or diminished to the point of veniality, they are not mortal sins and thus will not of themselves deprive one of heaven. | | | Failure to embrace the Christian faith (infidelity), total repudiation of the Christian faith (apostasy), and the post-baptismal obstinate denial or willful doubt of particular teachings of the Catholic faith (heresy) are objectively grave sins against the virtue of faith. |
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http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=1203
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ignorance |
| | Vincible and consequent ignorance about the duties of our state of life or the truths of faith necessary for salvation is, of course, sinful. | | | Invincible ignorance, whether of the law or of the fact, is always a valid excuse and excludes sin. | | | In this article it is the ethical aspect and consequences of ignorance that are directly under consideration. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07648a.htm
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| | In Pursuit of Ignorance Chabad.org |
| | Since enlightened ignorance surpasses knowledge and wisdom, it is not knowledge or wisdom, which is to say that it is a form of ignorance. | | | 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. | | | The type of knowledge (and ignorance) that we are considering embraces the fundamental truths of existence, which is to say that it addresses the nature and meaning of reality. |
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http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=2940
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| | 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. | | | 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. | | | Thus it is when the depravities have ripened that ignorance attains to fruition, as it is one of them. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/bits/bits026.htm
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| | Jos - Overcoming Ignorance |
| | In Zen, ignorance is seen as the antithesis of enlightenment. | | | This ignorance is often based on a gross lack of the most basic knowledge of matters of the spirit. | | | People who are truly ignorant are not aware of their ignorance - not being aware that one does not know is a defining quality of ignorance. |
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http://www.taoism.net/theway/ignorance.htm
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| | SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Does ignorance cause involuntariness? |
| | 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. | | | Accordingly, we must take note that ignorance has a threefold relationship to the act of the will: in one way, "concomitantly"; in another, "consequently"; in a third way, "antecedently." "Concomitantly," when there is ignorance of what is done; but, so that even if it were known, it would be done. | | | But it is not every ignorance that deprives one of this knowledge. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/summa/200608.htm
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| | Ignorance |
| | From one’s ignorance proceeds covetousness, and from the latter proceeds 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). |
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http://www.hinduism.co.za/ignoranc.htm
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| | Undressing Ignorance |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | The Emperor’s Nakedness: Undressing Ignorance in the Classroom |
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http://www.specmind.com/vixen/undressing.htm
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| | Vanquishing Ignorance |
| | 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. | | | Ignorance is not merely the lack of knowledge, but self-destructive turning away from truth in all areas of life. | | | Plato distinguished clearly between "simple ignorance," the mere lack of information, and "double ignorance," the absence of knowledge coupled with the delusion of having genuine knowledge. |
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http://www.hermes-press.com/Perennial_Tradition/ignorance.htm
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| | Veil of ignorance - Encyclopedia of Political Information |
| | The veil of ignorance is a concept introduced by John Rawls in A Theory of Justice. | | | The veil of ignorance is part of the long tradition of thinking in terms of a social contract. | | | Veil of ignorance - Encyclopedia of Political Information |
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http://www.politicalinformation.net/encyclopedia/Veil_of_ignorance.htm
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| | SPIRITUAL IGNORANCE |
| | Once the ignorance is dispelled, or once the mind is purified of egoism and illumined with the Spiritual Wisdom, its all misapprehensions end. | | | With the sparkling jewel of spiritual wisdom, the heart is illumined, and ignorance is dispelled (sggs 368). | | | : O Nanak, the Gurmukh attains spiritual wisdom, and the pitch-black darkness of ignorance is dispelled (sggs 512). |
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http://www.gurbani.org/webart45.htm
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| | God Attacks Our Ignorance |
| | The fifth form of ignorance is the ignorance of specialization. | | | The fourth form of ignorance is the ignorance of wrong expectations. | | | 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. |
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http://www.westarkchurchofchrist.org/chadwell/1999/091299pm.htm
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| | Ignorance - Wikiquote |
| | "To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance." ~A. Bronson Alcott | | | "Man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance." ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton | | | "Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise" ~ Thomas Gray |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ignorance
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| | 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. | | | 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. | | | Jonathan E. Adler, "Open Minds and the Argument from Ignorance". |
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http://www.fallacyfiles.org/ignorant.html
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| | 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. | | | And in terms of the current ordinary-language meaning of the words involved, "deep-seeded ignorance" makes sense, while "deep-seated ignorance" doesn't. |
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http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001815.html
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| | Ignorance Apathy Greed |
| | 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. | | | As an example of the interplay between ignorance, apathy, and greed, consider the problem of pollution. | | | Greed exploits the ignorance of the majority who do not have sufficient sympathy to counter the greedy faction. |
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http://www.progress.org/archive/fold21.htm
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| | Ignorance |
| | Like factual ignorance it is correctible if the owner of the ignorance is willing. | | | Thinking ignorance is the bane of the western world, and the rest of the world for that matter too. | | | 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. |
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http://www.settingtheworldtorights.com/node/490
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| | Vincible Ignorance |
| | The present ignorance of the political Left on many matters is seemingly calculated and more aptly described, in a context far different than that originally intended by the Church, as "affected" ignorance, ignorance that is "deliberate and fostered." One cannot escape moral culpability for errors arising out of affected ignorance. | | | Examples of affected ignorance that have grown into articles of faith on the Left abound. | | | as ignorance that cannot be remedied by diligent application of all the information and reasoning capacity available. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/politics_conservative/113231
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| | The unteachable ignorance of the red states. By Jane Smiley |
| | 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. | | | Of course, the literal word of the Bible is tremendously contradictory, and so you must abdicate all critical thinking, and accept a simple but logical system of belief that is dangerous to question. | | | Third, and most important, when life grows difficult or fearsome, they (politicians, preachers, pundits) encourage you to cling to your ignorance with even more fervor. |
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http://www.slate.com/Default.aspx?id=2109218&
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| | 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 stupidity stupid knowledge american arrogance dumb religion america asshole british culture english entertainment evil fact god great britain idiocy ignorant materialism school ugly american yank |
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ignorance&r=f
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| | Knowledge AND Ignorance: Critique of Neoclassical Economics |
| | Consequently, ignorance is promoted as a qualitative manifestation of a "good economist". | | | This process of producing ignorance becomes entwined with the promotion of ideology to the detriment of us all. | | | The attraction of Socrates is that, through his didacticism, we come to realise that the greatest knowledge we can possess is the awareness of our boundless, fathomless ignorance. |
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http://www.aucegypt.edu/faculty/thompson/herbtea/articles/jie2.html
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| | Ignorance by Milan Kundera - read excerpt |
| | The foregoing is excerpted from Ignorance by Milan Kundera. | | | Milan Kundera is the only author today who can take such dizzying concepts as absence, memory, forgetting, and ignorance, and transform them into material for a novel, masterfully orchestrating them into a polyphonic and moving work. | | | It records only "an insignificant, minuscule particle" of the past, "and no one knows why it's this bit and not any other bit." We live our lives sunk in a vast forgetting, a fact we refuse to recognize. |
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http://mostlyfiction.com/excerpts/ignorance.htm
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| | United Communities of Spirit |
| | This wheel is a Buddhist symbol of bondage to samsara, due to ignorance. | | | Next, it is due to ignorance, according to the religions of India, that humans are bound to suffer on the wheel of samsara, going through continual deaths and rebirths. | | | In the Christian Bible, the apostle Paul taught that ignorance of God lay at the root of all forms of license and immorality. |
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http://www.origin.org/ucs/ws/theme049.cfm
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| | No. 1840: Questions and Ignorance |
| | My ignorance opened up before me, and knowledge was ready to flow in a way it had not flowed before. | | | Once a student develops the rare talent for seeking his or her own ignorance, teachers become irrelevant. | | | Knowledge likewise flows to the point of greatest ignorance. |
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http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1840.htm
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| | The Veil of Ignorance |
| | Behind such a veil of ignorance all individuals are simply specified as rational, free, and morally equal beings. | | | The Veil of Ignorance (sometimes ignorance is good) | | | Rawls suggests that you imagine yourself in an original position behind a veil of ignorance. |
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http://radio.weblogs.com/0104634/stories/2002/07/18/theVeilOfIgnorance.html
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| | Technorati Tag: ignorance |
| | Ignorance Book Shop for Ignorance Book from 600+ merchants with one cart. | | | Posts tagged Ignorance per day for the last 30 days. | | | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged ignorance. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/ignorance
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| | Special Dispatch Series - No. 733 |
| | The unfortunate ones, who return to their countries intending to apply what they have learned, are shocked by the great extent of the natural and deliberate ignorance in their countries. | | | "The problem of the Arabs is that they suffer from a compounded ignorance - namely, they are ignorant of their own ignorance. | | | "In short, we are talking to the ignoramus graduates of religious educational institutions or Arab universities that are devoid of learning - those [graduates] who cover up their ignorance by accusing Orientalism of conspiring against Islam or distorting its image. |
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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP73304
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| | IGNORANCE MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT |
| | flooding the rest of the world with ignorance. | | | ‘ignorance is bliss’ and we intend to keep it that way | | | positioning on IM Ignorance is bliss’ and we intend to keep it that way. |
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http://web.inter.nl.net/users/pwilkins/imass1.html
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| | The Washington Monthly |
| | But for all sorts of reasons I won't rehash, the people who don't know the most fundamental fact about biology don't merely go about their lives in honest, unmeddlesome ignorance, they aggressively push their ignorance on those who know better, and demand that their ignorance be treated as the equal to the truth. | | | Another disturbing sign of widespread scientific ignorance is the heavy boots story. | | | We didn't make a big issue of their ignorance until they tried to impose it on the rest of us. |
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_08/007015.php
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| | Book Reviews - Ignorance by Milan Kundera |
| | In Ignorance, he brings us the story of Irena, a Czech émigré in France, returning home after a twenty-year absence. | | | The St. Petersburg Times says, "Ignorance is not bliss, but reading it is a pleasure." | | | [click book cover for amazon.com page for Ignorance] |
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http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/ignorance
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| | AlterNet: Widespread Ignorance |
| | Disgusted at a populace that revels in it's ignorance. | | | The ignorance of so many people in a society with universal communication can also be attributed to the corporation control over the universities and the media. | | | It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. |
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http://www.alternet.org/story/23964
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| | CA100: Argument from incredulity |
| | This argument, also known as the argument from ignorance or "god of the gaps," is implicit in a very many different creationist arguments. | | | It is inconceivable that (fill in the blank) could have originated naturally. | | | In particular, it is behind all arguments against abiogenesis and any and all claims of intelligent design. |
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http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CA/CA100.html
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| | The Atheism Web: Common arguments |
| | This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose." |
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http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/arguments.html
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| | HIV & AIDS: Ending an Epidemic |
| | But while ignorance about some things may be bliss, ignorance about AIDS can be deadly. | | | Because as much as anything, HIV runs on ignorance, and unlike AIDS, ignorance can be destroyed — simply by facing a few facts. | | | Because even though recent news about AIDS treatments and possible vaccines have given us reason for hope, the simple truth is that AIDS — and the HIV virus that causes it — is the kind of thing that most of us seem to prefer not thinking about. |
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http://www.doitnow.org/pages/h105.html
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| | USATODAY.com - Ignorance isn't bliss for execs on trial |
| | He wasn't ashamed of his ignorance, but displayed it proudly, even on the witness stand: "I know what I don't know," he testified. | | | USATODAY.com - Ignorance isn't bliss for execs on trial | | | If there ever was a golden age of CEO ignorance, a time when the top executive could claim to be unaware of their company's financial health, that era is long over. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2005-03-16-ceos-usat_x.htm
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| | BookPage Fiction Review: Ignorance |
| | In Milan Kundera's new novel, Ignorance, two Czech émigrés have been talked into returning to the country of their birth after having been away for 20 years. | | | Richard Carter has lived on three continents but presently calls North Texas home. | | | They will soon discover how much things have changed in their absence and learn that who they have become doesn't matter much to their former countrymen. |
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http://www.bookpage.com/0210bp/fiction/ignorance.html
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| | The Encyclopedia of Ignorance |
| | The more eminent they were, the more ready to run to us with their ignorance. | | | Compared to the pond of knowledge, our ignorance remains atlantic. | | | We found that this approach appealed to them. |
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| | Rational ignorance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Marketers can take advantage of rational ignorance by increasing the complexity of a decision. | | | 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. | | | 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. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ignorance
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| | Strategic Ignorance Main - Sierra Club Books |
| | Select a chapter from Strategic Ignorance for updates to the book that you won't find in print: | | | To unsubscribe from the Strategic Ignorance mailing list, enter your e-mail address and click "Unsubscribe." | | | Welcome to the Strategic Ignorance website, featuring material we didn't have room for in the print edition, as well as an expanded version of the book's notes that includes links to sources that are available on the Web. |
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http://www.strategicignorance.com
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| | Pluralistic Ignorance |
| | Pluralistic ignorance occurs where the majority of individuals in a group assume that most of their others are different in some way, whilst the truth is that they are more similar than they realize. | | | Adopting these norms, even if you do not agree with them, is a part of the individual sacrifice that people accept as a price of group membership. | | | When most people do this, the supposed norm becomes the norm. |
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http://www.changingminds.org/explanations/theories/pluralistic_ignorance.htm
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| | Flickr: Photos tagged with ignorance |
| | Feeds for photos tagged with ignorance Available as RSS 2.0 and Atom | | | You can assign as many tags as you wish to each photo. |
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ignorance
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| | Oxford Scholarship Online: Ignorance |
| | Keywords: certainty, ignorance, illocutionary acts, justification, knowledge, language, normativity, rationality, skepticism, truth | | | Abstract: Argues for the thesis of universal ignorance, i.e., for the claim that nobody can ever know anything. | | | Universal ignorance gives rise to further skeptical results: in order to be justified or reasonable in believing something, the subject must know something to be so. |
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http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/philosophy/0198244177/toc.html
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| | Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / The ignorant American voter |
| | Alas, our own ignorance is of an entirely different order. | | | Consider, as Ilya Somin has been considering this election season, what Americans don't know about politics and public policy. | | | Johnson may not have known a pastern from a fetlock, but he knew enough to write an entire dictionary -- all 2,300 pages and 43,000 entries of it -- single-handedly. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/10/24/the_ignorant_american_voter
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| | Cure Ignorance: Just another asshole with ideas. |
| | After all, I would have to be pretty full of myself to believe that I am right all of the time and that others could only cure ignorance by listening to my crackpot ideas. | | | I am always open to responses no matter how critical they may be. | | | So please take the time to check out my blog and post your two-cents because I believe that the only wrong opinion is the one that goes unexpressed. |
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http://cureignorance.com
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| | The Big Picture: Hubris & Ignorance |
| | "It combines past trends that are not indicative of the future with the user's own hubris and ignorance." | | | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Hubris & Ignorance: | | | If you haven't seen it yet, I advise you to have a gander at this week's Dilbert series on trading software: |
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http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/01/hubris_ignoranc.html
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| | Ignorance |
| | Meanwhile Ulysses perished himself with a nostalgy which is nothing else but the pain of mutual ignorance. | | | 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. | | | Tragedy can be sensed on each page of the novel. |
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http://www.kundera.de/english/Bibliography/Ignorance/ignorance.html
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| | Ignorance is Hell |
| | Ignorance is Hell - Chapter 11 - the finale | | | "Ignorance is Hell" is an exclusive to Three Way Stop. |
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| | EFF: Breaking News |
| | Law Firm Shows Ignorance of the Law in Anonymous Emailer Case |
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http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_04.php
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