tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1/tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2003://1.642- 2007-12-03T12:12:58Z Comments for Taxonomy of Ignorance Jack Vinson writes about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and more. As of December 2007 Jack will likely start writing about product management too. Movable Type 4.01 tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2003://1.642.p135 Trackback in article Taxonomy of Ignorance from thought?horizon thought?horizon http://www.thoughthorizon.com/archives/000480.php

Does this Taxonomy of Ignorance (via Seb's Open Research and Jack Vinsom) help with Enemies of Learning?... [Read More]

2003-08-25T05:18:13Z 2003-08-25T05:18:13Z tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2003://1.642.291 Comment from Andy Tinkham on 2003-08-27 Andy Tinkham http://blackbox.cs.fit.edu/blog/andy/index.xml Philip G. Armour wrote a piece on the five levels of ignorance in the October 2000 Communications of the ACM (I'd post a link, but the only URL I have is specific to the Florida Tech domain -- go to http://www.acm.org/dl and you can browse to it or search to find the link. Non-free digital library registration required, if you don't have corporate or university access to the digital library).

The following is drawn from his article.

His orders are:
0th Level of Ignorance -- Lack of Ignorance (I know something and can demonstrably prove it)
1st Level of Ignorance -- Lack of Knowledge (I don't know something, but I know that I don't know it)
2nd Level of Ignorance -- Lack of Awareness (I don't know something, and I don't know that I don't know it)
3rd Level of Ignorance -- Lack of process (I don't know something, I don't know that I don't know it, and I don't know how to find out that I don't know it)
4th Level of Ignorance -- Meta Ignorance (I don't know that there are these levels of ignorance)

It would be interesting to combine this with the levels you have above....

]]> 2003-08-27T23:51:56Z 2003-08-27T23:51:56Z tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2003://1.642.292 Comment from Jack Vinson on 2003-08-28 Jack Vinson http://www.jackvinson.com Excellent! This is exactly what I was looking for originally.

]]> 2003-08-28T17:51:34Z 2003-08-28T17:51:34Z tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2003://1.642.p136 Trackback in article Kinds of ignorance from Seb's Open Research Seb's Open Research http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/2003/08/21.html#a1038

Jack Vinson (a newly blogging chemical engineer who I found thanks to Denham's wonderful KmBlogger page ) has dug up an interesting Taxonomy of Ignorance . [Read More]

2003-09-02T15:07:32Z 2003-09-02T15:07:32Z tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2003://1.642.294 Comment from Dr. James H. Boren on 2003-09-18 Dr. James H. Boren www.jimboren.com Boren is the editor of The Journal of Applied Ignorance. Will forward information on his article, "A Philosophy of Ignorance" --- and "Osteocranial Densities in the Diagnostic Study of Political Leaders" He writes: "The purpose of ignorance is to liberate the minds of people from the restraining chains of knowledge."

]]> 2003-09-18T16:54:10Z 2003-09-18T16:54:10Z tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2003://1.642.17812 Comment from Gabe Singer on 2007-02-07 Gabe Singer THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY ECONOMICS
and can be most easily found at: http://www.aucegypt.edu/faculty/thompson/herbtea/articles/jie2.html

Herb Thompson (1997) "Ignorance and Ideological Hegemony: A Critique of Neoclassical Economics", Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 8(4): 291-305.

All the things of which people are aware they do not know (the most recognised form of ignorance);
All the things people think they know but do not (ignorance based on error);
All the things of which people are not aware that, in fact, they do know (intuition);
All the things people are not supposed to know but could find helpful (taboo);
All the things too painful to know (psychological suppression of memory); and
All the things, of which people are not aware that they do not know (ignorance-squared).

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