The difference between ignorance and stupidity is that ignorance can be cured.
Discussion
Ignorance is born from lack of curiosity, I think. Is it possible to ignite that curiosity thingy? 🐶🐾🤔
Ignorance can also be because you didn’t have the opportunity to gain that information yet. I’m an avid reader and always curious, yet there are many things I admit to being very ignorant of.
Ok, I went with the dictionary definition of the word, and that’s where I drew the conclusion from! 🐶🐾🤔
“Ignorant shares a root with the word ignore, one of those etymological connections which appear obvious once they are pointed out, yet remained overlooked by most. Both words come from the Latin ignorare (“to ignore, be ignorant of”). There are several meanings of ignorant, all of which are concerned with a lack of knowledge in some sense; some of these are more insulting than others, and care should be exercised before applying this word to people who you do not wish to offend. Saying “They were ignorant of most of the laws of physics” means that the people in question did not have a specific body of learning. Saying “You are an ignorant person” is possibly describing someone as primitive, crude, or uncivilized.”
Yes! I think they are describing both senses there. There is a very derogatory usage analogous to stupid. I am intending to use the term in the second sense, like the usage “They were ignorant of the laws of physics.”
I guess it’s a differentiation between “willingly ignorant” and “ignorant based on circumstance”
Yes! Language is hard. In that case, I am with you. But I would have probably used “uninformed” in that case! 🐶🐾🤣🫡
Worth pointing out, it’s a word that has changed meaning in recent times.
Webster 1828 lists it as:
“IG'NORANT, adjective [Latin ignorans.] Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened. A man may be ignorant of the law, or of any art or science. He may be ignorant of his own rights, or of the rights of others.
1. Unknown; undiscovered; a poetical use; as ignorant concealment.
2. Unacquainted with.
Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame.”
I did not mean it in the pejorative way. I’m old, and I forget that things have changed. Perhaps a rewording of my family’s old saying is in order 🤔
🐶🐾🤣 you start thinking of all the parts of the world and how they apply the meaning, and it all goes BOOM
Yes. And words change so fast these days. I really think some of it is intentional to cause confusion, and some of it is just the world growing up and being interconnected.
Think of the words 50 years ago: gay, retarded, dumb, queer, democracy, et al.
Almost none of those words mean what they meant 50 years ago.
True! Languages evolve at the speed of information being transmitted. Now we have an information highway, and that reflects on the evolution of the languages 🐶🐾🫡
I foresee it being most difficult for older people. People my parents age really struggle to be understood. I do to a lesser extent. It will be interesting to see how the world deals with this moving forward.
We will evolve and who cannot will die off, like it always have been. Sad but true 🐶🐾🫡
