The term cognition is used in different ways by different disciplines. In psychology, it refers to an information processing view of an individual's psychological functions. Other interpretations of the meaning of cognition link it to the development of...

Problem of evil

Know Nothing, a nativist American political movement of the 1850s

Cognitive dissonance

Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of fields, including philosophy, statistics, economics, finance, insurance, psychology, engineering and science. It applies to predictions of future events, to physical measurements already...

Anti-intellectualism describes a sentiment of hostility towards, or mistrust of, intellectuals and intellectual pursuits. This may be expressed in various ways, such as attacks on the merits of science, education, or...

Hypercorrection comprises four linguistic...

Hatred is a word to describe immense feelings of dislike toward someone or something, as well as prejudice or bigotry against a class of people, racism being a prominent example of this. The term hate crime is used to designate crimes committed out of...

Bad faith (existentialism)

Mob rule

Theaetetus (dialogue)

Stupidity is the quality or condition of lacking intelligence, as opposed to being merely ignorant or uneducated. This quality can be attributed to both an individual or a person's actions, words or beliefs, or those of a group. As an English word, it...

Protagoras (dialogue)

Abnormal Biological Cognitive Developmental Emotion Experimental Evolutionary Mathematical Neuropsychology Personality Positive Psychonomics Psychophysics Social...

Innocence is a term that describes the lack of guilt of an individual, with respect to a crime. It may also be used to indicate a general lack of guilt, with respect to any kind of crime, sin, or wrongdoing. It can also refer to a state of unknowing,...

A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception. In psychiatry, the definition is necessarily more precise and implies that the belief...

Idiot is a word derived from the Greek ἰδιώτης, idiōtēs ("person lacking professional skill," "a private citizen," "individual"), from ἴδιος, idios ("private," "one's own").[1] In Latin the word idiota ("ordinary person, layman")...

Avidyā is a Sanskrit word that holds the semantic field of Ignorance, delusion, unlearned, unwise. It is used extensively in Hindu texts, including the Upanishads. if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide";...

Denial is a defense mechanism in which a person is faced with a fact that is too painful to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. The subject may deny the reality of the unpleasant fact...

Apathy is a state of indifference — where an individual has an absence of interest or concern to certain aspects of emotional, social, or physical life. Apathy can be object-specific — toward a person, activity or environment. It is a...

Spiral of silence

Rational ignorance, the notion that the limitations of the human mind require a prioritization of which knowledge to remember.

Common-sense metaphysics

Ignorance (band)

Sermon on the Plain

Avidya (Buddhism)

Dismissiveness is a form of denial, characterized by either passively showing indifference or disregard, or actively dismissing or rejecting ideas or...

Misinformation is wrong or inaccurate information. It is distinguished from disinformation by motive. Misinformation is simply erroneous. Disinformation, in contrast, is intended to mislead.[1] Makkai[2] proposes the distinction between misinformation...

Intellectual inbreeding

Intellectual dishonesty

Insularity reflects a wide range of physical and emotional meanings in accordance with a person or...

Acatalepsy (from the Greek α̉-, privative, and καταλαμβάνειν, to seize), in philosophy, is incomprehensibleness, or the impossibility of comprehending or conceiving a thing. The Pyrrhonians and Skeptics, and even Plato's Academy asserted...

Ignorance is a lack of knowledge. Ignorance is sometimes misinterpreted as a synonym of stupidity, and is as thus often taken as an insult. In many cases ignorance is seen as a pleasant alternative to harsh reality.

Willful ignorance (or vincible ignorance) is a bad faith decision to avoid becoming informed about something so as to avoid having to make undesirable decisions that such information might prompt.

Ignorance is bliss is a phrase that comes from Thomas Gray's poem, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" (1742): "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."^[1]

"War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength." is the slogan of The Party in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four