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'''Willful ignorance''' is the practice or act of intentional and blatant avoidance, disregard or disagreement with [[fact]]s, [[empirical]] [[evidence]] and well-founded arguments because they oppose or contradict your own existing personal beliefs; deliberately restricting one's knowledge due to an aversion to particular facts.   

'''Willful ignorance''' is the practice or act of intentional and blatant avoidance, disregard or disagreement with [[fact]]s, [[empirical]] [[evidence]] and well-founded arguments because they oppose or contradict your own existing personal beliefs; deliberately restricting one's knowledge due to an aversion to particular facts.  In [[law]], when [[knowledge]] of a certain [[fact]] is an element of a [[crime]], the [[jury]] may find that someone who is willfully ignorant of that fact has the requisite knowledge of it.

 

[[Category:Psychology]]

[[Category:Psychology]]