Agnotology

[Joel S. Berson]

I think you're right, Wilson.  "Agnoiology" is not the same as
"agnotology", if we take Proctors's presumptive coining as the sense.

Joel

At 8/23/2006 02:20 PM, you wrote:
>I think that the operative phrase here is _necessarily ignorant_.
>Proctor appears to have in mind various kinds of cultural con jobs
>that allow people ignorantly to say things like, "I have nothing
>against  those people, but ..." and still honestly believe themselves
>to be free of any kind of bias whatsoever.
>
>OTOH, there are things of which people are necessarily ignorant. For
>example, I can have no idea whether my argument will persuade you.
>
>-Wilson
>
>On 8/23/06, Grant Barrett <gbarrett at worldnewyork.org> wrote:
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>> > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>> >> New to me in my studied ignorance, but it seems to date back at least
>> >> to a book review in Science magazine in January 2005.  I wonder
>> >> whether it was coined by Proctor in the call for papers for an
>> >> October 7 and 8, 2005, conference at Stanford, "Agnotology: The
>> >> Cultural Production of Ignorance", co-organized by him.
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>>A similar word is "agnoiology," defined by OED as "the doctrine of
>>those things of which we are necessarily ignorant; that department of
>>philosophy which inquires into the character and conditions of
>>ignorance." There's one cite to 1856. The def in the 1913 Webster's
>>is identical to the first sentence of the OED def.
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>>The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English (May 2006, McGraw-Hill)
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