Talk:Ignorance

message: 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)
thread_title:  untitled 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title: Merge information from Abuses of skepticism

message: 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)
thread_title:  Noticed a major error 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Trim 

message: "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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  opinion? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Irony 

message: Ref: "The role of ignorance", copyright University of Pittsburg Press:
"There are as many sorts of ignorance as there are sorts of things to be ignorant about... so even as knowledge knows no bounds, (neither) does ignorance. The price of ignorance in general is incapacity... The person who does not know the combination cannot open the lock."
In many respects, a grasp of the scope of one's own ignorance is even more essential to effectively applied intelligence than is knowledge.
There have been numerous attempts at developing a "taxonomy of ignorance" not referenced here, and this is only one deficiency.  This is article is as far from an encylopedic reference on ignorance as it is possible to be.  One might even term it "ignorant" in the extreme about its subject matter, but that may be a compliment Danshawen (talk) 22:20, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Reach of Ignorance 

message: Ignore [verb]: To disregard willfully and carelessly.
Ignorance [noun]: The lack of knowledge, understanding, or information about something; the condition of being unaware, uninformed or uneducated; the state of being ignorant.
Ignorant [adjective]: A person in the state of ignorance.
Ignorance doesn't mean ignoring. Ignorance only means lack of knowledge, and has never meant the deliberate act of ignoring, e.g. my ignoring (not ignorance) of my girlfriend's hourly text messages quickly caused our break-up. It is in fact ignore which has changed its meaning over time, and has become rather more deliberate, i.e. one has no knowledge of something because one has chosen to have no knowledge of it. Ignorance has not followed this path.
In conclusion, ignorance and ignorant refer to lack of knowledge, i.e. being simply unaware, whereas the verb form, ignore, has changed over time to refer to deliberately choosing to be unaware, i.e. willful ignorance, conscious decision to not know.
If you describe a person as "ignorant" without any other context you usually mean that they're bigoted/obstinate as described above, e.g. "What did you think of Dave?" "I think he seemed a little ignorant". However, if you use it to refer to a particular context then it can be used (carefully) to describe the simple fact of not knowing, e.g. "How did Dave get on with the customer?" "He was ignorant of their networking requirements".
"Ignorance is bliss" means that lack of knowledge results in happiness; it is more comfortable not to know certain things; what you don't know won't hurt you.
78.167.99.171 (talk) 13:09, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just what is with this word for crying out loud? 

message: Answer:  "I don't know, and I don't care."
This article is supposed to be our Article for Improvement.
Let's try to better the effort in 2013. It is a sad article now.  7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:52, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Question: "Is democracy in more danger from ignorance or apathy?"

message: The usual definition of Ignorance is "lack of knowledge or information". "Lack of knowledge of information" would more closely be considered an example of "uneducated". To "educate" someone would be to "give them instruction or knowledge in a particular field". An uneducated person in not deliberately ignoring information, but simply is unaware of the information. 
   The common definition of ignorance,  ignores the root word of ignorance: ignore.  Ignore means to "deliberately not take notice or disregard intentionally".  Ignorance then is to know the truth and choose to deliberately disregard the information. It is possible to educate the uneducated, however it is not possible to overcome ignorance with facts or information if people choose to ignore them. 
Paul R Eitson  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.13.135.236 (talk) 15:47, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ignoring root words: The definition of ignorance.