Metaphysics of this sort is "not rational and abstract like that of learned men now," Vico emphasizes, "but felt and imagined [by men] without power of ratiocination...This metaphysics was their poetry, a faculty born with them...born of their ignorance of causes, for ignorance, the mother of wonder, made everything wonderful to men who were ignorant of everything" ("Poetic Wisdom," §375, p.116).
4. At the population level, there is additional uncertainty in quantifying interaction and assigning etiologic fractions to different necessary causes because of ignorance about the components of the sufficient cause.
As long as this nation will not seriously address the root causes of racism: ignorance, fear, and economic insecurity, the problems of the "learning gap" will persist.
With China taking its first real steps toward a full-scale public awareness campaign about AIDS this week, the degree of ignorance caused by past government denial is evident in the dazed expression of Zhao Pingyuan.
It has some of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world, partly because of ignorance caused by a lack of basic education in the region.
For this situation we have pointed out, in our previous articles, three possible causes: (a) Ignorance of the facts; (b) Compulsion to sell and inability to buy; (c) Unwillingness to buy from fear that the present liquid assets will be dissipated.
Investigation of the nature and causes of epistemic injustice and ignorance, and remedies for it, is one of the most active areas of feminist epistemology today.
I am not psychologist, but I am sure there are many causes: fear, ignorance, sudden loss of a sense of power of control. .
Learn rowing etiquette so that you don't cause injury as a result of ignorance.
However, most of the respondent fruit and vegetable farmers showed massive ignorance on causes of pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables.
