Sentences with phrase «wilful ignorance»

"Wilful ignorance" refers to a deliberate decision to ignore or avoid knowledge or information, even when it is readily available. Full definition
Unintended consequences are a fact of life, but to make policy in wilful ignorance of them is not only disheartening but is nothing short of dangerous.
the [endangerment finding] legislation is fundamentally anti-science, just as the rhetoric that supports it is grounded in wilful ignorance.
They were a gross distortion of the Catholic faith and revealed an almost wilful ignorance of the Catechism in answering questions about mortal sin, confession and holy communion.
The comments made by the predominantly white, middle - class, cisgender feminists such as Harriet Harman, Caroline Flint, Stella Creasy and Fiona McTaggart revealed a genuine or wilful ignorance about the experiences of sex workers.
For those that can remember Labour in the early 1980s it is all eerily familiar, right down to the same wilful ignorance on the evidence.
Again, a large measure of spacial pleading, wilful ignorance of the arguments in currency, and of course a total lack of self - awareness combined with total self - absorption.
Nothing called down the wrath of Nemesis on the head of its possessor quicker and surer than hubris, the wilful ignorance of our ignorance, the ignorance of the ignoramus, rather than the ignorance of Socrates, which has its roots in wisdom or the knowledge of our second - ratedness.
Wilful ignorance is a hallmark of the Teabilly Taliban.
For most of us it's not a sinister or wilful ignorance, I promise.
The cost of this wilful ignorance cloaked in scienciness?
It's always distressing when an opponent produces a finely tuned, informative and empirically supported argument without the need for abuse, wilful ignorance, self centeredness and immature bluster.
Wilful ignorance is even less.
Do you say «Merry Christmas» in blissful or wilful ignorance?
Why is «wilful ignorance» holding back progress in Indigenous health?
«Labor's commitment to the UN declaration evinces a wilful ignorance of indigenous politics and the law.
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