ignorance is bliss

Examples of ignorance

ignorance
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.
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abysmal ignorance
No, it is not based on abysmal ignorance of the facts, but this fact is not available.
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