Prinzip des Nichtwissens
English translation: principle of ignorance
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peer agreement (net): +1principle of ignorance Explanation: Für die verborgene Fläche gilt nun Hawkings Prinzip des Nichtwissens (principle of ignorance). Hawking zeigte, dass dem Zufall eine noch wesentlich stärkere ... www.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/docs/AlbertEinstein.pdf The time-reversed pair-production mechanism of black-hole emission is described, Hawking's 'principle of ignorance' (i.e., that black holes add an extra ... adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1977S&T....54...84O |
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| Nichtwissen knowledgelessness Explanation: The term 'knowledgelessness' is used in theology (asker's context) and might be a possible rendering for 'Nichtwissen'. I don't know of any 'principle of knowledgelessness' though. |
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principle of ignorance Explanation: I realize that this is a duplicate answer, but I think it worthwhile to point out that this term (and I think in the context of your text) has its origins in social science, and not physics or astronomy. Specifically in the social theory of Hayek (see web ref.): "This two-tier ignorance is perhaps the main key to Hayek’s and his “social-economics” successors’ vision of social science and its legitimate aims. As is well known, Hayek’s concept of “true individualism” and its legal and political implications crucially underlie this advocacy of twin ignorance: as a humanist he does not, of course, call for social theorists to build interactive models of mindless, ignorant atoms whose analytical solutions the theorists, in turn, are ignorant of and can only solve on the computer; while such deep analytical intractability may indeed frequently pop up, what Hayek really has in mind is the normative idea that the maximal realization of each individual’s liberty when several individuals interact can only be ensured if no allocation of resources (ideas, goods, services, etc.) is imposed ex machina so as to short-circuit that interaction—in other words, a set of rules and regulations must be constructed so that out the virtually infinite ex ante variability of individual aims some indeterminate ex post order can result as a purely emergent property of the system of interactions." ...and... "They combine two distinct and precisely circumscribed types of ignorance. (1) Each individual agent leads her existence in the sole pursuit of her personal interests, unaware of the fact that the overall constraints she faces are the compounded effect of her own action, together with all other actions. Hayek (1945b: 84) puts it this way: “It is always a question of the relative importance of the particular things with which he is concerned, and the causes which alter their relative importance are of no interest to him beyond the effect on those concrete things of his own environment.” (2) The theorist can observe—and must, as a genuine social scientist, confine himself to observing—the compounded effect of all individual actions; he is therefore bound to remain ignorant of the motives which “really” impelled each individual to act as she did. Hayek (1943: 67) puts it this way: “If conscious action can be ‘explained,’ this is a task for psychology but not for economics or linguistics, jurisprudence or any other social science." So, the "principle of ignorance" appears to be rooted in socioeconomic theory, and not just in "black holes"..... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 17 hrs (2007-04-09 11:35:14 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Sorry about the 'carriage returns'! Reference: http://www.unites.uqam.ca/philo/pdf/Arnsperger_2004-04.pdf |
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