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Keypoints On Ignorance

The document discusses different types of ignorance. It defines ignorance as the absence of knowledge that should be present. There are three forms of ignorance: in its object, subject, and result. Ignorance in its object can be of law, fact, or penalty. Ignorance in its subject is either vincible (can be overcome) or invincible (cannot be overcome). Ignorance in its result is antecedent (precedes consent), concomitant (accompanies the act), or consequent (follows the act).

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Keypoints On Ignorance

The document discusses different types of ignorance. It defines ignorance as the absence of knowledge that should be present. There are three forms of ignorance: in its object, subject, and result. Ignorance in its object can be of law, fact, or penalty. Ignorance in its subject is either vincible (can be overcome) or invincible (cannot be overcome). Ignorance in its result is antecedent (precedes consent), concomitant (accompanies the act), or consequent (follows the act).

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Ignorance is the absence of intellectual knowledge in man.

Ignorance is thus a negation of knowledge; it is a negative thing.

Privative - it is absence of knowledge that ought to be present.

Mistake or error - it consists not merely in the absence of knowledge,


but in the presence of what is falsely supposed to be knowledge.

Forms of Ignorance

i. in its object - the thing of which a person may be ignorant;


ii. in its subject - the person in whom ignorance exists;
iii. in its result - with reference to the acts that are performed in
ignorance.

Ignorance in its Object

(a) Ignorance of Law is the ignorance of the existence of a duty,


rule, or regulation.

(b) Ignorance of Fact is ignorance of the nature or circumstances of


an act as forbidden.

(c) Ignorance of Penalty is the lack of knowledge of the precise


sanction affixed to the law.

Ignorance in its Subject

(a) Vincible Ignorance (i. e., conquerable ignorance; ignorance that


can and should be supplanted by knowledge) is ignorance that can
be dispelled by the use of ordinary diligence. Such ignorance is,
therefore, due to lack of proper diligence on the part of the
ignorant person, and is his fault. Vincible ignorance is, in
consequence, culpable ignorance.

Crass (or supine) Ignorance. It is the result of total, or nearly


total, lack of effort to dispel it.
Simply Vincible. If some effort worthy the name, but not
persevering and whole-hearted be unsuccessfully employed to dispel it.

Affected Ignorance. If positive effort is made to retain the


ignorance.

(b) Invincible Ignorance is ignorance that ordinary and proper


diligence cannot dispel. This sort of ignorance is attributable to one of
two causes, 1) either the person in whom the ignorance exists has no
realization whatever of his lack of knowledge, or 2) the person who
realizes his ignorance finds ineffective his effort to dispel it.

Hence, invincible ignorance is never the fault of the person in


whom it exists, and it is rightly called inculpable ignorance. Invincible
ignorance has two degrees:

If no human effort can dispel it, it is physically invincible.

If such effort as good and prudent men would expend to dispel


it— taking into account the character and importance of the matter
about which ignorance exists—is found to be ineffective, the ignorance
is called morally invincible.

Ignorance in its Result

(a) Antecedent Ignorance is that which precedes all


consent of the will. The act is done through or/in
consequence of ignorance. Antecedent ignorance does
not differ from invincible ignorance.

(b) Concomitant Ignorance is that ignorance which, to


speak, accompanies an act that would have been
performed even if the ignorance did not exist.

(c) Consequent ignorance is that which follows upon an


act of the will. The will may directly affect it, or supinely
neglect to dispel it. Thus, consequent ignorance does not
differ from vincible ignorance.

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