Results 221 to 230 of about 69,534 (266)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.

Ignorance of Ignorance

2021
This chapter introduces the Buddha’s definition of ignorance as non-knowledge of the four noble truths, and discusses the necessity of initial trust in his teaching where the four noble truths are taught, if one were to eliminate ignorance. It also informs that it is only the Buddha’s teaching that can give one a perspective to recognize ignorance as ...
openaire   +1 more source

Ignorant of ignorance?

Practical Neurology, 2011
‘Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognising one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments’. Not really neurology but still a great paper, summarised by its title, which has important implications in training neurologists and revalidation. In this paper Kruger and Dunning1 took a group of Cornell students and asked …
openaire   +2 more sources

The Economics of Ignorance or Ignorance of Economics?

Critical Review, 1989
THE ECONOMICS OF TIME AND IGNORANCE by Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr. and Mario J. Rizzo New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985. 261pp., $34.95 O'Driscoll and Rizzo, two leading exponents of the Austrian subjectivist school of economics, claim to provide an original and powerful challenge to mainstream neoclassical economics.
openaire   +1 more source

The virtues of ignorance

Behavioural Processes, 2010
Although ignorance and uncertainty are usually unwelcome feelings, they have unintuitive advantages for both human and non-human animals, which we review here. We begin with the perils of too much information: expertise and knowledge can come with illusions (and delusions) of knowing.
Lisa K, Son, Nate, Kornell
openaire   +2 more sources

Investing in Ignorance

Computer, 2010
The task of navigating the information hierarchy is harder than we would like to think and involves more uncertainty than we care to admit.
openaire   +1 more source

Orchestrating Ignorance, Ignoring Consent

2007
Abstract This chapter discusses some of the unethical strategies polluters use to mislead citizens about pollution risks. It identifies at least ten special-interest or government behaviors — from advertising and lobbying to white-collar crime and information-suppression — that enable private-interest polluters to subvert the public ...
openaire   +1 more source

On Ignoring the Singularity

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 1991
Summary: Conditions are given, weaker than those previously known, under which one can ignore a singularity while carrying out a numerical quadrature. The conditions apply in all (finite) dimensions. A special case concerns the theory of uniformly distributed sequences.
openaire   +2 more sources

Representing Ignorance

Social Philosophy and Policy, 2004
If we wish to assess the morality of elected officials, we must understand their function as our representatives and then infer how they can fulfill this function. I propose to treat the class of elected officials as a profession, so that their morality is a role morality and it is functionally determined.
openaire   +1 more source

Information and ignorance

Information Processing & Management, 1984
Abstract Ignorance is sometimes understood to be deprivation of information. By reviewing different types of ignorance, some understanding of different senses of information may be obtained. This paper surveys some possibilities along these lines.
openaire   +1 more source

Ignorance in organisations – a systematic literature review

Management Review Quarterly, 2023
Harri Jalonen
exaly  

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy