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Ignorance of ignorance

Item Type

Journal Article

Author

Fine, Kit

Language

English

Abstract

I discuss the question of when knowledge of higher order ignorance is possible and show in particular that, under quite plausible assumptions, knowledge of second order ignorance is impossible.

Tags

Ignorance in other disciplinary fields
Ignorance in philosophy and logic

Subject

Ignorance
Knowledge
Contingency
Fitch’s paradox
Indeterminacy
Modal logic

Publication Title

Synthese

Publication Year

2018

Publication Date

2018-09-01

Journal abreviation

Synthese

Source

Springer Link

License

cc-by-nc-ndCC BY-NC-ND 4.0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1406-z

ISSN

1573-0964

Physical Description

vol. 195, n. 9, pp. 4031-4045

URL Document

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1406-z
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Ignorance of ignorance, dans Science & Ignorance, consulté le 4 Novembre 2025, https://ignorancestudies.inist.fr/s/science-ignorance/item/4608

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