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Ignorance of the law is no better excuse on the water than it is on land ; ;
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Ignorance and law
The two Iowa cases of State v. Ellis and State v. Striggles are both used in classes on criminal law to illustrate the concept of reliance upon authority as it relates to the axiomatic ignorantia juris non excusat (" Ignorance of the law is no excuse ").
Ignorance and is
Ignorance is an evil, but is merely the absence of knowledge, which is good ; disease is the absence of health ; callousness an absence of compassion.
US Olympic officials, including former teammate and later president of the IOC Avery Brundage, rebuffed several attempts, with Brundage once saying, " Ignorance is no excuse.
The Ghost of Christmas Present appears before the Ghost of Christmas Past, and no reference is made to Scrooge's nephew Fred or the metaphorical children Ignorance and Want.
Stanley Henning's article, " Ignorance, Legend and Taijiquan " is critical of the myth that Zhang San Feng created Tai Chi Chuan, and asserts that it is very likely that Zhang never existed.
" Apelles seemed to have had a taste for elaborate allegory and personification, which he carried far in his rendering of Calumny, described by Lucian, in which an innocent youth is falsely accused by Ignorance, Envy, Treachery and Deceit.
In his own words, " Ignorance is the foundation of atheism, and freethinking the cure of it " ( Discourse of Freethinking, 105 ).
* February 3-Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly, another Jonson / Jones masque, is staged at Whitehall.
Ignorance and no
The leading contradiction which is corrected in the Agnoiology or Theory of Ignorance claims that there can be an ignorance of that of which there can be no knowledge.
It is corrected by appealing to the fact that Ignorance is a defect, and argues that there is no defect in not knowing what cannot be known by any intelligence ( for example, that two and two make five ), and therefore there can be an ignorance only of that of which there can be a knowledge, that is, of some-object-plus-some-subject.
Ignorance and on
Ignorance on this point has caused a great deal of needless anxiety, misunderstanding and suspicion.
Roughly a century before Copernicus, Christian scholar Nicholas of Cusa also proposed that the Earth rotates on its axis in his book, On Learned Ignorance ( 1440 ).
After getting over the River of Death on the ferry boat of Vain Hope without overcoming the hazards of wading across it, Ignorance appears before the gates of Celestial City without a passport, which he would have acquired had he gone into the King's Highway through the Wicket Gate.
Writer Thomas Pynchon articulated about the scope and structure of one's ignorance: " Ignorance is not just a blank space on a person's mental map.
Ignorance can stifle learning, in that a person who falsely believes he or she is knowledgeable will not seek out clarification of his or her beliefs, but rather rely on his or her ignorant position.
Whereas in the main rounds of the show, the panellists ' use of buzzers is not usually enforced, the " General Ignorance " questions are introduced by Fry's reminder to keep " fingers on buzzers ".
The first QI book was 2006's The Book of General Ignorance, published in hardback on 5 October by Faber and Faber.
Most of the book's facts and clarifications have appeared on the programme, including its list of 200 popular misconceptions, many of which featured during the " General Ignorance " rounds.
QIs second book, The Book of Animal Ignorance, was released in the UK ( in the same hardback format ) by Faber & Faber almost exactly a year after the first General Ignorance, on 4 October 2007.
But I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny -- Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.
Syslog-ng store box ( SSB ) is a logserver appliance based on syslog-ng with features of log collection, relaying, log routing, log tagging and classification or performing Artificial Ignorance.
On January 29, 2008, Face to Face announced on their official website that the band — featuring the Ignorance is Bliss line-up ( though refusing to play any material from the album itself according to an interview on the Face to Face Myspace page ) — would be reuniting for select shows in the US and internationally.
He is the inventor of the Ignorance Index, an empirical rating system for talk shows on radio and television.
A review on the pro-evolution website talk. origins, described the book as "... an exposition of the Frontiers of Ignorance " and that within it systems were labeled " irreducibly complex " if Behe was not able to envision a simpler system that still worked.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, she appeared on many radio programmes including: " Ignorance is Bliss ," " Geraldo's Open House ," " Taxi " with Jerry Verno, " Desert Island Discs ," " Talk Yourself Out of This ," and she appeared twice on the " Calling All Forces " show.
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