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词汇 example_english_ignorance
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Examples of ignorance


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In any case, our ignorance about these issues is very great.
As we have seen, democracy is important for epistemic reasons - given ignorance, we must create the political conditions to learn from our errors.
The resulting typhoid ('enteric fever ' or maagkoors) epidemics claimed victims annually and the tenants' ignorance of basic hygiene perpetuated the cycle.
We do not want our children to be illiterate like we are, or that they suffer like we do because of our ignorance.
We begin with the well-established idea of the rational ignorance of citizen-voters.
Electoral competition in the face of rational ignorance will not necessarily drive candidate or party surpluses to zero.
Now ignorance of the true nature of happiness is pretty clearly a defect in the agent.
He combined amateurism, enthusiasm, ignorance, and charisma, always a dangerous mix in any polar adventure.
They are incompetent, from extreme ignorance or vicious habits, to the performance of the most ordinary duties of social life.
Our relative ignorance about dance in this repertoire stems from a number of factors.
In my experience, architects too often take a high-handed view of the ignorance of the officials who deal with applications for altering listed buildings.
Moreover, the absence of theory and ignorance of the problems with ' use ' as the dependent variable, may be responsible for this.
As newly-arriving colonizers, they were vulnerable, not only because of their numerical weaknesses, but because of their ignorance of the local people and customs.
Cultural habits and ignorance of legal rights undermines the legal and constitutional protections that are in place.
He returns to the argument with the claim that ignorance (and as you remember, he believes that all vagueness is ignorance) has no "relevant" function.
Behind the veil of ignorance, would not we all agree to limited, humane preemptive strikes for the safety of all?
Fear, greed, ambition or ignorance prevented other observers at court from making such a record.
From the point of view of problem-specific knowledge, then, the brothers are misdescribed as a case in which ignorance makes the middle brother smart.
The captivity accounts reproduce similar images of the ' barbarian other ', representations nourished as much by ignorance as by prejudice.
Such an interpretation of the situation pertaining in the territory betrays signs of either fiscal convenience or wilful ignorance.
The study revealed an appalling level of ignorance on the part of board members about state-of-the-art pain management practice.
Ignorance is not a defense to many crimes for which society presumes personal responsibility to acquire important information.
The most important is ignorance of prognostic and indication criteria at forwarding workplaces and the aversion of neonatologists to all new therapeutic interventions.
Is this merely anodyne or does it reflect an ignorance of the medieval equity jurisdictions ?
If there are particular things that every responsible physician should know in order to effectively respond during disasters, then continuing in ignorance is culpable.
Minimize students' feelings of ignorance and impotence in the face of social problems; maximize their social awareness and sense of mastery.
Then, each representative would perform the thought experiment suggested by the veil-of-ignorance strategy.
Governments sometimes prefer that there is a lack of capacity, weak enforcement and ignorance in resource agencies if it can help reduce visibility and accountability.
If so, then postulating a veil of ignorance is a quite different move from postulating impartiality.
The veil of ignorance is a useful theoretical tool because bias toward oneself can potentially subvert understanding of social justice.
Why do these values translate only to bias-neutralizing, aversion to uncertainty, the veil of ignorance, and equality?
Vagueness about the point of transition from serious to non-serious illnesses is just ignorance.
All of this is said with staggering confidence, swaggering arrogance and the certainty of ignorance.
The application of early selection, however, has been very limited because of our ignorance of the genetic basis of growth and development.
In effect, these documents embodied the colonial state's ignorance of female action and attitudes.
As long as son preference is assumed to have existed, the similarity of the intervals suggests the unavailability or ignorance of contraceptive techniques.
Finally, the problem of nutrition education is considered, as it has been shown that malnutrition is often due to ignorance.
Her attitude is often written off to ignorance or 'culture'.
Intermediate : the children who could only pass the attribution of knowledge-ignorance task.
Their ignorance of the real world is thus summarized in this stochastic specification, and the resulting optimal decision rule is only rational given this specification.
To understand that there is no single, subject-self and no external world of objects is to become free of ignorance about the nature of things.
Maybe parts of the dissemination problem are due to ignorance of important moral issues.
We must recognize the degree of eld ignorance and the larger situation of the eld in a nexus of social and educational power relations.
Ignorance of the biology by the popular press and limited but publicised experiments contributed.
He blamed official cor ruption, ignorance, and foreign intrigue for the backwardness of his homeland.
Moreover, in the health area, it is quite clear that ignorance about nutrition creates severe health hazards for the population.
However, this shock was largely the result of ignorance of who exactly ' evangelicals ' were and what they believed.
Ignorance of law is a lack of knowledge that a law exists.
The oddest aspect of these books is that they were evidently written in ignorance of each other.
The customers compensate for their ignorance by using a combination of elaborate verbal and visual depiction.
However, such injury is often caused by ignorance, bad advice, lack of patience and over-enthusiastic or compulsive behaviour.
Under a system of voluntary disclosure, the non-credibility of a statement of ignorance creates the incentive to acquire and disclose genetic test results.
Simultaneously, it distances the family from its archaic nativeness and its correlate ignorance and backwardness.
Such regimes are not the outcome of a political mistake or ignorance on the part of leaders.
Several explanations have been put forth to account for this anti-bilingual ideology, from racism to ignorance to fear.
Most of such mispronunciation is a result of ignorance, which television and radio can do a lot to remedy.
Through ignorance about how education and language policy could be organized so as to achieve greater social justice, and a better functioning economy and democracy.
During the translation process, mistakes slip in, often due to the translator's ignorance, tiredness or lack of motivation.
We finally argue that the veil of ignorance should be rejected as a tool for discovering what justice requires.
Part of the explanation lies in the forest service's own limitations of personnel, distance and ignorance.
The truth is, probably, that nobody ever foretells anything or has any intuition whatever and that, surely, this never occurs in a state of ignorance.
Perhaps certain virtues of religious faith and the virtue necessary for dealing as best one can with moral dilemmas both require ignorance.
The difference between ignorance and lack of relevance is, of course, subtle.
Ignorance cannot be its own reward in this way, for that would render conscientious inquiry otiose.
Even had they been conscious of their ignorance, many philanthropists would not have been perturbed by it.
Ignorance of the social code in the novel situation constituted a risk, of behaving in an inappropriate or socially unacceptable way.
Every human experience is limited and constrained by the unalterable ignorance of many aspects of actuality and possibility.
Central to these results is the issue of the credibility of ignorance.
Of course, the abundance of ignorance could also be used to ground a much more radical posture towards politics.
Patients may be ignorant of their own level of ignorance or subject to even higher order forms of ignorance.
Sedimentologists look for simple explanations, and often find ones that are sufficiently simple that they present no challenge to our ignorance.
Given such legislation, an announcement of ignorance must mean that the enrolee has not taken any tests.
Saying as little as possible wouldn't help me, for my silence might support the other 'signs of ignorance'.
In risk assessment uncertainty represents the degree of ignorance, and variability represents the inherent variation in the value of a particular parameter.
The children, believing ' through ignorance ' and ' with sincerity ', that a man would appear, would shout until hoarse.
Similarly, ignorance of what constitutes good clinical practice is not a defense to a professional liability claim.
What if we were to put ourselves behind the veil of ignorance in respect to our children's genetic makeup?
In these cases, social policy may rest more on ignorance of causal factors than on knowledge.
The option to remain in ignorance is, however, not open to social parents of contemporary clones.
Foundations recognized this problem and declined to address it, citing ignorance.
The imaginary process of reaching agreement behind this veil of ignorance is the game of morals.
The core of this question is whether ignorance of the error that is condemned explicitly is excusable.
Rather, the ignorance stems from three other features of much of the research.
The effects of real incomparability between the values of outcomes may be the result of ignorance-induced vagueness.
Ignorance is of a peculiar nature: and once dispelled, it is impossible to re-establish it.
Arguably, voluntary action is vitiated by ignorance and volitional impairment like loss of motor control.
As long as the mind remains unsituated, operating in ignorance of any ultimate or meaningful context, uncertainty rules human recognition and pursuit of the good.
We cannot criticize the 'energy illiterate' for their ignorance of relative fuel prices or for uncertainty about the most effective insulation measures.
Being an instrument to organize the political ignorance on which democracy rested, party could be accepted as an unpleasant need, not praised in itself.
Even assuming complete good will and unimpeachable moral convictions, inefficiency, ignorance and other ordinary facts of life will lead to objectionable laws being passed.
Only irrational" props" to high fertility then remain; religion, tradition, and ignorance.
The debate appears to have been conducted in some ignorance but, as with much else in this area, a high degree of polemical certitude.
Juries served as a safeguard against this ignorance.
Prudential deliberators behind the veil of ignorance will realize that the resources necessary to protect their age-relative opportunity range differ at various stages of life.
As he applied the traditional theory of ignorance to his discourse on doctrinal correction, the concentration of corrective power on the ecclesiastical hierarchy effectively collapsed.
However, that entrepreneur has to confront another source of ignorance, the unpredictability of the future at the point of decision.
What are the sources of human ignorance to which this argument appeals?
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