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To: trubolotta

That should be "contempt for ignorance", clearly meaning willful ignorance.


256 posted on 09/09/2004 8:32:44 AM PDT by balrog666 ("One man's theology is another man's belly laugh." -- Heinlein)
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To: balrog666

The term "absichtliche Unwissenheit" does sound better than the foppish "ignorance obstinée" though.


257 posted on 09/09/2004 9:30:02 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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