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Erotetic Ignorance Does Not Reduce To Factive Ignorance

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Nottelman (2016) and Peels (2023) identify several categories of ignorance: factive, objectual, and practical, with erotetic ignorance —understood as the lack of knowledge of answers to questions—viewed as reducible to factive ignorance. This paper argues that erotetic ignorance is not in fact reducible to factive ignorance. More precisely, erotetic knowledge does not solely involve a relationship between a subject and a true proposition or set of propositions; instead, it involves a relationship between a subject, a true proposition or set of propositions and epistemic goals of inquiry.

Source: Principia an international journal of epistemology

DOI: 10.5007/1808-1711.2024.e97876

Author: André Joffily Abath

Institution: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Language: English

Topic: Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

Award: G6360948428