What is ignorance?

I can tell ignorance when it happens, but what exactly is it? Also what separates it from stupidity?

Definition: Lack of knowledge or information.

It's pretty much when a person talks about, or states something when they have little knowledge of the fact and end up sounding stupid.

Example: "Black people steal stuff"

You're ignorant because you are incorrectly basing this off a loosely made stereotype, when you have no knowledge of crime or racial concepts.

Ignorance is not being informed. Stupidity is lacking the intelligence to understand or reason.

Ignorance is a lack of knowledge so pretty much every one on Earth is ignorant in some area since it isn't possible to know everything. For instance right now you are all ignorant of what happens to be on my TV right now as I'm typing this.

also,things like bigotry and bias usually derive from ignorance....it's very powerful and if I were to convey most of my thoughts on it I would take up an entire page.But things like this sum it up nicely.

@cameron83: Not all bias is based on ignorance, for instance I'd be biased against having a tiger for a house pet because I know that it would be bad for the tiger and completely unsafe for me. Racial bias is almost unanimously based on ignorance but a general bias can be based on completely informed decisions.

I know that!

I was mainly referring to bigotry and things like that,but to be honest that slipped my mind.It's like I already knew that (when I say "that",I am referring to what you said),yet it's almost as if I was enlightened as if I learned something new....but still,thanks :)

@cameron83: My point was that lots of people believe that bias is always bad or intentionally hurtful but there are many positive biases like when a parent roots for his kid's soccer team even when the other team is stomping them.

Lack of knowledge and/or understanding.

@innersuperman said:

Don't start.

But doesn't that kinda go without saying.

lots of people only associate Bias with negativity (like you said),but I knew that.

bliss

@laflux said:

@gungunw said:

@innersuperman said:

Don't start.

Is that supposed to say "and here we go"?

Ignorance has always been "Lack of Knowledge" from a defining standpoint... we are all ignorant of somethings so no one is immune to it... even if they think they are.

@gungunw: Yes

The question you ask is a good example of ignorance

You're watching porn....

Beat me to it =/. lol.

Not liking things I like.

True.

@cattlebattle: Not while the kid's up

Ignorance is your new best friend.

Ignorance is a term for the concept that is roughly the opposite of knowledge, awareness and understanding. Ignorance is not knowing something, being aware of something, misinformed, so we are all ignorant, just slightly less ignorant than when we were born when we knew nothing, just felt and reacted to stuff. Then our baby brains develop into a organ capable of knowing things then we begin to accumulate knowledge, experience, familiarity. Usually enough so that we can start learning and acquiring knowledge and information, whether by first hand experience, study or critical thinking.

Willful ignorance is when one is ignorant despite faced with knowledge or information that contradicts what they believe, think or understand, hence they are said to be willfully ignorant in their beliefs, knowledge or understanding.

If not knowing something is ignorance, then stupidity could be understood to mean knowing something, but not understanding it. Its a relative term though. If I type 5 + 5 =. An ignorant person as far as maths, numbers, and english would wonder what those symbols were, a stupid person could know what maths, english and numbers are and understand 5 + 5 = is an addition problem and the answer is 7 or umm... 11? Too hard to compute potentially for a stupid person. So you can have very intelligent ignorant people and very knowledgeable stupid people, and a few other variations.

The Inability to learn.

@turoksonofstone: Ignorance is not an inability to learn it is simply not knowing. For instance I am ignorant of the Russian language but I could change that if I chose too. What you are referring to is stupidity, there is a huge difference between not knowing something and not being able to learn.

@joshmightbe:

Superman fanboys

Ignorance is bliss.

Willful ignorance is stupid.

Something beautiful and hilarious, and also very, very ugly.

Uh huh.

@innersuperman said:

snap!