Talk:Ignorance

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I'm not trying to ruffle any feathers here, but it seems like linking ignorance to George W. Bush might be a NPOV violation unless there's a really specific reason. --SingCal 08:04, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

There is something missing in this article, such as "ignorance is a state of mind". Then there's also the old saying that goes something like this "no one has control over you but you". In some religions (such as Christianity), it is believed that God gave man (or woman) a choice - to do good or to do evil; hence, the other popular saying "the fall of man". I fail to see how "control", "oppression", "empowerment" and "absolute freedom" are linked to "ignorance". Or maybe, I'm just exhibiting my ignorance on the subject of "ignorance". Paradigmbuff 22:30, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)

Added: European and Asian cultures praise and reward those who endeavor to overcome ignorance (the fruits of their effort for instance, advancements in the field of Information Technology).Paradigmbuff 02:56, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Merge information from Abuses of skepticism

Personally I don't really know if they go together. Work needs to be done on the article before it can be realistically looked at to merge. The person who tagged it on the "Abuses of skepticism" page said that: "asmost (examples) of this article is about ignorance cloaked as scepticism, but scepticism is completely ditterent, it DEMANDS TESTING..." I have tagged totally so that it can be debated. Radagast83 21:36, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

If the Pathological skepticism article survives its currect AfD, Abuses of skepticism probably should be merged there (under whatever name it ends up with), not here. Cheers, CWC(talk) 12:50, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Noticed a major error

This article is the perfect example of Wikipedia's perceived lack of credibility. Word definition should never be subjected to personal feelings. A quick lesson/Google search in Latin or origin of the use of ignorance will show how this article should be completely rewritten and redone. Writing like this leads to further ignorantia to the genuine definition of words. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.194.164.233 (talk) 03:28, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

I came across this article and found the reads like an essay and personal research tags. As I began reading the first few paragraphs I saw why. Although the author made some interesting points, they ironically had misdefined the term and of course the bulk of their ideas were based on this incorrect definition. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 157.145.220.9 (talk) 00:32, 13 January 2007 (UTC).

I agree, the article states "ignorance is NOT a lack of knowledge", but according to dictionary.com the definition is: the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.

I also agree, and further, even the cited sources to this article refute the ideas presented in the introduction, and article all together

Trim

I severely trimmed the article because I thought that the content was not appropriate for an encyclopedia. As has all ready been mentioned on this talk page and was put on the article itself in the form of a template, it read like a personal essay. In addition, it was completely unreferenced despite making some very controversial claims. I recommend that the article be rewritten rather than reverting and attempting to find references, or just reverting and leaving the article as it was. However, if someone reverts my edit, I will not revert it back. -- Kjkolb 14:17, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

opinion?

"Ignorance is sometimes misinterpreted as a synonym of stupidity, and is as thus often taken as an insult, when really it is not".

Some people do find being called ignorant insulting even when they know it differs from stupidity. Try to explain the difference between ignorance and stupidity rather than labeling whats insulting and what isn't.

just seemed like an Ignorant statement to me --Deadlytab 04:08, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Much is unknown, and thus we are ignorant of it. However, ignorance generally has the connotation of failure to be aware of facts those who are not ignorant are generally aware of. "He is ignorant" means failure to have knowledge skills that are reasonably expected in the relevant context. User:Fred Bauder Talk 13:34, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Irony

I find it ironic that a lot of people do not know the meaning of the word ignorant, even though they use it a lot. Meaning that they are Ignorant of the definition of Ignorant. MatthewBlacke (talk) 17:48, 17 January 2012 (UTC)