Ignorance of ignorance

Kit Fine

doi:10.1007/s11229-017-1406-z

Ignorance of ignorance

Kit Fine^*

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Philosophy

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-15
Number of pages	15
Journal	Synthese
Early online date	28 Apr 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1406-z
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 28 Apr 2017

Keywords

Contingency
Fitch’s paradox
Ignorance
Indeterminacy
Knowledge
Modal logic

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Philosophy
General Social Sciences

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Ignorance of ignorance

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