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→Shift of meaning of "ignorance"
A translation of a 13th-century Church doctor completed in the 1920s<ref>Aquinas, Thomas (1274). "Whether ignorance is a sin?" ''Summa Theologica'', translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province (London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne and New York: Benzinger Brothers, 1915), part I of second part, Q. 76, A. 2, Answer.</ref> retains this definition of "ignorance" as ignoring. As a solution for referring to a lack of knowledge that may or may not be willful, the word "nescience" is used. However, this word is virtually unknown today.
A translation of a 13th-century Church doctor completed in the 1920s<ref>Aquinas, Thomas (1274). "Whether ignorance is a sin?" ''Summa Theologica'', translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province (London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne and New York: Benzinger Brothers, 1915), part I of second part, Q. 76, A. 2, Answer.</ref> retains this definition of "ignorance" as ignoring. As a solution for referring to a lack of knowledge that may or may not be willful, the word "nescience" is used. However, this word is virtually unknown today.
== External links ==
*[https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/5010/Deliberate-IgnoranceChoosing-Not-to-Know Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing Not to Know], MIT Press
*[https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2023/10/why-we-choose-ignorance#:~:text=The%20researchers%20hypothesized%20that%20one,act%20in%20an%20altruistic%20way. ‘I’d rather not know’: Why we choose ignorance]
*[https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/people-choose-willful-ignorance/#:~:text=Willful%20ignorance%20serves%20to%20protect,the%20time%20to%20learn%20more. 40% of people willfully choose to be ignorant. Here’s why], Big Think
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