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ignorance

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Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia 4 facts

claimInherent limitations in human cognitive faculties, such as the inability to conceive of facts that are too complex, result in inevitable ignorance.

claimHuman knowledge is usually accompanied by ignorance because people rarely possess complete knowledge of a field, forcing reliance on incomplete or uncertain information when making decisions.

claimExternal circumstances where individuals lack access to relevant information result in inevitable ignorance.

claimKnowledge is often defined as the contrast to ignorance, which is the absence of knowledge.

Social Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Feb 26, 2001 3 facts

claimMona Simion (2023) and Harris (2023) challenge the idea that disinformation must be misleading, arguing instead that it can produce ignorance or block successful action.

claimSocial epistemologists characterize ignorance as involving either false belief or a lack of information, and study how it is distributed and sometimes willfully maintained in communities.

referenceErinn Gilson published 'Vulnerability, ignorance, and oppression' in the journal Hypatia in 2011.

Social epistemology - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy rep.routledge.com Routledge 2 facts

claimSocial epistemologists have recently begun studying ignorance, with feminist epistemologists and critical race theorists conducting pioneering work on how systemic features of epistemic communities preserve ignorance regarding inconvenient truths.

perspectiveFeminist epistemologists and critical race theorists, such as Mills (2007) and Tuana (2006), argue that systemic features of epistemic communities were instrumental in the widespread preservation of ignorance about a vast array of inconvenient truths.

Social Epistemology - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu MIT Press Jul 24, 2024 2 facts

claimVices are conceptualized as dispositions that obstruct the acquisition, maintenance, and transmission of knowledge and other epistemic goods, or that promote ignorance and error.

claimCore epistemic attitudes, in addition to knowledge, include understanding, wisdom, and ignorance.

Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu John Greco, John Turri · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Jul 9, 1999 1 fact

referenceJulia Driver published 'The Virtues of Ignorance' in the Journal of Philosophy in 1989, which examines the concept of virtues in relation to ignorance.