According to, if a sentence is concluded as a presupposition, then it is odd to explicitly assert ignorance about it and go on to presuppose it.
He spent his time actively arranging for the dissemination of a gospel of which he never has asserted either ignorance or disbelief.
They can plausibly assert their ignorance about what actually happened.
Like many people in China, Li asserts that ignorance in consumer countries is the enemy of elephants.
She cites her naïveté, asserts her ignorance of Nazi ideology, death camps and crimes and insists that she bravely resisted Hitler's demand that she make propaganda feature films, agreeing to do a documentary of a Nazi party rally as a compromise.
Nicholas of Cusa held to a form of fideism he called docta ignorantia ("learned ignorance"), asserting that God is beyond human categorization, and thus our knowledge of him is limited to conjecture.
In his dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. asserted that Justice Kagan accused legislators of "ignorance" in passing these laws — that they have "accidentally required 2,000 teenagers to spend the rest of their lives in jail".
Citing a report by the Senate Intelligence Committee called "Prewar Intelligence Assessments About Postwar Iraq," that was released the Friday before the holiday weekend, Reid asserted that "the Bush administration cannot hide behind ignorance.
The more the verdicts against eBay pile up, the harder it will be for the company to argue that it can't keep tabs on the counterfeiting taking place on the Web site and defend itself against the "willful ignorance" charge, asserts Michael Huget, the head of intellectual property at Detroit-based law firm Butzel Long.
I borrow this title from Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie, who insightfully asserted that hearing only one story about a people or nation leads to ignorance.
