The phrase "a failure of knowledge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is a lack of understanding or information on a particular subject.
Example: "The project's delay was largely attributed to a failure of knowledge regarding the new regulations."
Alternatives: "a lack of understanding" or "an absence of information."
The digital deficit, they suggest, isn't a result of the medium as such but rather of a failure of self-knowledge and self-control: we don't realize that digital comprehension may take just as much time as reading a book.
Aristotle said that comedy deals with the ridiculous, and Plato, in the Philebus, defined the ridiculous as a failure of self-knowledge; such a failure is there shown to be laughable in private individuals (the personages of comedy) but terrible in persons who wield power (the personages of tragedy).
For the five years or so after he wrote Measure for Measure, in 1603 04, Shakespeare seems to have addressed himself exclusively to tragedy, and each play in the sequence of masterpieces he produced during this period Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus turns in some measure on a failure of self-knowledge.
If we are self-deceived in our emotional responses, or if some emotional state induces self-deception, this may not be merely a failure of self-knowledge.
"I can say that the challenges of making work more efficient is something that has been on my mind for a long time, and I come to it with a lot of passion and the knowledge of a failure of doing this at a different company," he says, referring of course to Google Wave.
"I can say that the challenges of making work more efficient is something that has been on my mind for a long time, and I come to it with a lot of passion and the knowledge of a failure of doing this at a different company," he says, referring of course to Google Wave.
"But the failures of knowledge and communication sometimes have terrible results, as happened here".
However, similar to other health screening initiatives [ 14- 16], the uptake of SSS by smokers from poorer socio-economic groups remains a challenge [ 13, 17], due to barriers such as fear of being judged, fear of failure, lack of knowledge about the existence and nature of SSS and availability of pharmacotherapy [ 5].
Irin was founded in response to the international community's failure to prevent the Rwandan genocide, a failure in which a lack of knowledge and understanding were found to have played a key part.
Skeptical doubt about common knowledge is certainly possible, but such doubt relies upon ad hoc assumptions similar to those that are needed to explain failure of individual knowledge, not with the attainability of common knowledge in principle.
