Ramin Saadat

The Classification of Ignorance and Its Challenges: A Comparative Review of Pre-modern and Contemporary Traditions

Ignorance, unlike many subjects that humanity has taken seriously, has not yet found a shared language for classifying its own types. This paper reviews the efforts made so far to distinguish types of ignorance: from pre-modern distinctions in the Greek, Roman, Jewish, Islamic, C...

The Classification of Ignorance and Its Challenges: A Comparative Review of Pre-modern and Contemporary Traditions

Ignorance, unlike many subjects that humanity has taken seriously, has not yet found a shared language for classifying its own types. This paper reviews the efforts made so far to distinguish types of ignorance: from pre-modern distinctions in the Greek, Roman, Jewish, Islamic, C...

Has Public Ignorance Really Increased in Our Time? A Critical Examination of the Claim, Broken Down into Measurable Cases

This preprint presents a critical empirical and methodological evaluation of the widely repeated claim that public ignorance has grown in the age of the information explosion. Drawing on longitudinal survey data across nine epistemic domains (from scientific, political, and finan...