Knowledge and Ignorance
Good Faith, Bad Data and Back Room Deals: Knowledge, Ignorance and the Environment in Cape Hatteras, NC.
... hand, ignorance, the knowledge of what one does not or cannot know, emphasizes the political, social, and, perhaps most importantly, environmental uncertainties that play into policy ...decisions. ...
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Individual variables with an impact on knowledge sharing: the critical role of employees’ ignorance.
... organizational ignorance (Israilidis et ...employees’ ignorance can function as a possible variable with an impact on knowledge ...employees’ ignorance as the lack of knowledge, ...
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Measuring Student Knowledge, Ignorance and Risk Aversion with Objective Examination Questions
... Central to these aims are the definitions of states of knowledge. I have used standard and practical definitions for “true knowledge”, “false knowledge” aka “misinformation” and for ...
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e Extinction: An Illusion of Knowledge, The Presence of Ignorance, or Evolutionary Fate?
... external knowledge from novel ...external knowledge related to the web’s technologies, the success of current assistance programmes are likely to be over reliant upon ...
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Knowledge, community and ignorance
... I have shown that too strict an identification of knowledge with models of discovery and objectivity that are suited to corporate and scientific interests in knowledge rests on presumpti[r] ...
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Construction Industry Ignorance to Disaster Risk Reduction
... Specifically, there are some identified problems in integrating disaster management into the construction industry. First, problems created by the nature of the construction industry itself. Unlike other industries, ...
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A Dialectical Justification of Inclusion of Ignorance in the Definition of Education
... his/her knowledge and thinking abilities on an ongoing basis so as to cope with novel situations and to cope with them in a more successful ...communicate knowledge and ...and knowledge that earns a ...
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Money and the epistemologies of ignorance concerning climate change
... of knowledge- every cognitive act takes place in a specific space, time and contex t in the knower’s history reflect ing that person’s background and circumstances (quoted in Koggel 2008; Sarewitz ...
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Effects of ignorance and information on judgments and decisions
... The familiarity ratings confirmed that our respondents had very limited knowledge of the events being fore- cast; 44.8% (670 of the 1496 [88 x 17]) of teams were rated as completely unfamiliar. Familiar (rating ...
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The Difference Principle Would Not Be Chosen behind the Veil of Ignorance
... Put in terms of his risk/uncertainty distinction, Rawls rules out assigning or estimating probabilities in cases of uncertainty (where there is no objective basis for estimating probabilities) but not in cases of risk ...
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Regional Policy Evaluation : Ignorance, Evidence and Influence
... However, the weakness in the analysis portrayed in Section 2 is that it implies perfect knowledge about policy objectives and the way in which policy operates. That is to say, the specific forms of equations (1) ...
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The value of ignorance: Antidepressant drugs and the policies of objectivity in medicine
... In the MHRA’s recent report, for example, the treatment of Richard Brook - the lay member of the SSRI working group who was threatened with prosecution for seeking to publicize safety data - makes no appearance among the ...
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Awareness of unawareness : a theory of decision making in the face of ignorance
... deal with the potential existence of unknown and unsuspected phenomena and how, once such phenomena occur, to incorporate the new knowledge into the corpus of the decision maker’s prior beliefs. Zabell (1992) ...
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The Ostrich Instruction: Deliberate Ignorance as a Criminal Mens Rea
... 9 1 The Jewell majority adopted as its standard the Model Penal Code definition of knowledge: one knows a particular fact when he "is aware of a high probability of its existence, unless[r] ...
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The Price of Ignorance: Distributed Topology Control in Cognitive Networks
... much knowledge about network state must be available to each radio to enable it to make topology control decisions that are efficient in a network-wide sense? We measure the maximum transmission power and spectral ...
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Dismissive incomprehension: a use of purported ignorance to undermine others
... of knowledge, Hopkins, positing herself as an ordinary, straight-talking working person, is able to position herself as an epistemic authority in her audience ’ s eyes, declaring the testimony of others as ...
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Genes: new objects of anxiety and ignorance
... When, for example, people agree to participate in scientific research, they cannot easily opt out of learning about surprising findings that may come up in the research. The ethical question is whether a person can ...
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Big data big ignorance
... in knowledge, are in a particular way linked to the fantasies we create around ...and knowledge from the fields of astrophysics and physics in general in their ...
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Epistemic Injustice and the Preservation of Ignorance
... Ignorance is not always bad; far from it. Looking at the issue in its most general aspect there is the obvious point that for finite beings massive ignorance is a precondition of having an epistemically ...
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On Arguments from Ignorance
... positive knowledge and the criterion of bad ...positive knowledge covers the “evidence would have been found” premise which is needed for the FBI to conclude that their suspect is not actually guilty, ...
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