Ignorance
- Ignorance is the opposite of Knowledge
- Knowledge is a state of having information or understanding about something
- Ignorance is a state of not knowing something or having little or no information about something
- When we gain knowledge by learning, we reduce our ignorance
- See Principles of Ignorance
- Ignorance is a natural part of the human experience
- Involuntary ignorance is a state of not knowing something that you cannot or should not be expected to know
- If you have never been a mobster, you will be involuntarily ignorant of criminal gang culture
- Voluntary ignorance is a state of not knowing something that you could or should know
- If you choose to not read the news, you will be voluntarily ignorant of current events
- Deliberate ignorance is a culturally-induced phenomenon, the study of which is called agnotology
