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#539 Ralph Hertwig - Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing Not to Know

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Is There a Specific Definition of Ignorance?

Is there a specific scientific definition of ignorance, or is it just the same as the common sense definition? That's a good question. I mean, there are all kinds of, probably all kinds of different, more specialized definition of ignorance. The kind of ignorance that we were interested in the study of deliberate ignorance is really a situation where, in principle, something could be known because the knowledge is available. It does exist. And that's different from situations where our ignorance is due to the fact that things are going to happen in the future. Or because science hasn't even described a phenomenon yet. Our ignorance is a reflection of the actually existing limits of the corpus of knowledge that exists in the

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