From its conception the genre's stars seemed blissfully ignorant of the concept, convinced instead that by some mysterious form of alchemy, falsetto vocals, tight leather trousers and poodle perms could be turned into serious chest-beating machismo.
This view of Africans as so ignorant they can't master the concept of taking their medicine on time has become a touchstone of the Bush administration.
Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms, and never understand that struggle is useless — that's what Hell must be like.
Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms, and never understand that struggle is useless that's what Hell must be like.
For the ignorant speaker, prediction errors indicate that his concept is still not quite right: see Fig. 9 and (Frith & Wentzer, 2013) for discussion of the implicit hermeneutics.
For desire, intention, and pain, too, Shoemaker aims to reveal incoherences between having a rational command of the concepts in question and behaving as though one were systematically ignorant of or mistaken about those states.
Moreover, this observation generalizes: when subjects are partially ignorant of the semantic values of their words, the diagonal proposition determined by the propositional concept can capture the empirical information conveyed by the assertion.
The "American Dream" concept in Truman's world serves as an attempt to keep him happy and ignorant.
This perception of a clear gradient of knowledge between expert and public was integral to the new concept of popular science as 'rational amusement' provided from on high, delivered from the knowledgeable expert to his ignorant audience.
