Ignorance and awareness

Silva, Paul; Siscoe, Robert Weston

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“…13 If these kinds of 11 The Standard View and the New View are not the only accounts of ignorance. Brogaard's objection may also cause problems for more recent understandings of ignorance, like Piedrahita's (2021) access view or Siscoe and Silva's (2024) awareness account, but because the Standard View and the New View are the most popular accounts of ignorance, those are the views which I will focus on here. For more on how the gradability objection affects Pritchard (2021aPritchard ( , 2021b) and Meylan's (2020Meylan's ( , 2024 views that ignorance is a failure of inquiry though, see Section 1.…”

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Knowledge, true belief, and the gradability of ignorance

Siscoe

2024

Philos Stud

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Given the significant exculpatory power that ignorance has when it comes to moral, legal, and epistemic transgressions, it is important to have an accurate understanding of the concept of ignorance. According to the Standard View of factual ignorance, a person is ignorant that p whenever they do not know that p, while on the New View, a person is ignorant that p whenever they do not truly believe that p. On their own though, neither of these accounts explains how ignorance can often be a degreed notion -how we can sometimes be slightly ignorant, quite ignorant, or completely ignorant that p. In this paper, I will argue that there is a route for advocates of the Standard View and the New View to accommodate the gradability of ignorance. On the view I defend, 'ignorant' picks out everyone that is ignorant to some degree, making it possible that ignorance can be both degreed and characterized as a lack of knowledge or true belief. Even though we can be ignorant to a greater or lesser extent, the only way to avoid being ignorant that p is to know or truly believe.

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“…14 For more on the various types of ignorance, see Kyle (2021), Le Morvan and Peels (2016), Nottelmann (2016), and Siscoe and Silva (2024).…”

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Knowledge, true belief, and the gradability of ignorance

Siscoe

2024

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Bridging the gap: Enhancing understanding of insurance contracts to minimize claims rejections

Buthelezi,

Mbirimi-Hungwe,

Hungwe

et al. 2024

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An investigation to balance the sustainability of insurance companies and successful claims on insurance policies is important towards the economy, as well as for assisting the insured during financial difficulty when their items are damaged or lost. This paper examines some rejected short-term insurances where a misunderstanding of the contract might have caused the insurer to lose out on the claim. Data were collected from cases of courts and insurers on rejected claims due to misunderstandings by the insured. The first text data set was a court case. The second was a graph on the root causes of claims rejections from the insurer. The third was a matrix data set presenting the languages of the insured. The insurers who had refused to pay insurer claims supplied the latter two. Despite the three contexts being widely different, their results show that rejections of claims by the insurers were due to the insured failing to understand the conditions of the contracts, and thus not being able to figure out what could have caused the rejection. Hence, the use of complicated and legal language in insurance contracts results in the insured not fully understanding the contract, which leads to claims being rejected. The paper recommends the use of simple language and pinpointing in layman's form, those aspects that could lead to rejections of claims.

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The Problem of Ignorance in Contemporary Epistemology

ELMACI

2023

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Çağdaş epistemolojide bilginin doğasıyla ilgili yapılan tartışmalar bilgi için hangi koşulların gerekli ve öne sürülen koşulların ne ölçüde yeterli olduğu üzerine odaklanır. Epistemik açıdan bilgi iyi bir statüdür ve bunu sağlayan koşullar bilginin iyi bir statü olmasının dayanaklarıdır. Buna karşın, bilginin anti-konumu olarak düşünülebilecek cehaletin neden kötü bir statü olduğuna dair soruşturmalar oldukça yenidir. Klasik bir anlayış olarak cehaletin tarifi bilginin yokluğu olarak düşünülüyor olsa da son zamanlarda yapılan itirazlarla bilgiyi sağlayan koşullardan mahrumiyetin her zaman cehalet olarak nitelendirilemeyeceği gündeme getirilmiştir. Yeni görüş olarak isimlendirilen bu yaklaşım, cehaleti yüksek kriterler isteyen güçlü anlamda bilgiden ziyade doğru inancın yokluğu olarak ele almaktadır. Ancak yeni görüş için de cehaletin doğasını açıklamakta güçlükler söz konusudur. Alternatif bir görüş olarak normatif yaklaşım ise cehaletin normatif bir doğası olduğunu ve cehaletin entelektüel bir başarısızlık olarak düşünülmesi gerektiğini ileri sürer. Bu çalışmada, cehalete yönelik tartışma cehaletin neden kötü bir epistemik durum olduğunun izahı üzerinden incelenmektedir. Şöyle ki, bilgiyi iyi bir epistemik statü kabul etmenin nedenleri olduğu gibi, cehaletin de kötü bir epistemik statü olmasının nedenleri açıklanabilmelidir. Fakat cehaletin tarifinin bilgi veya doğru inançtan yoksunluk olarak yapılması yeterli bir açıklama sunmamaktadır. Çalışmanın iddiası normatif görüşün bu konuda en başarılı teori olduğudur. Buna rağmen cehalet olarak nitelendirmesi güç olan bazı durumlar için normatif görüşün hüküm vermekte problemli yönleri olduğu tartışılmaktadır.

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Ignorance and awareness

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Knowledge, true belief, and the gradability of ignorance

Knowledge, true belief, and the gradability of ignorance

Bridging the gap: Enhancing understanding of insurance contracts to minimize claims rejections

The Problem of Ignorance in Contemporary Epistemology

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