To know if ignorance is or is not absolute, one would have to have some knowledge, Thus the idea that ignorance is absolute is self defeating. knowing anything about anything, means ignorance is not absolute.
In the same way, asking if any truth were absolute refutes itself as having to ask the question implies that you do not know.
I'm wondering if you can clarify the "nescience" approach to understanding ignorance? I feel like I could distill some principle from it, but I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. Particularly I don't see how to differentiate knowledge/ignorance of theory/fact and knowledge/ignorance of insight. — "iVoyager
Vidyā or Vidhya means "correct knowledge" or "clarity" in several South Asian languages such as Sanskrit, Pali & Sinhala.
(Wikipedia)Techne is a term in philosophy which resembles epistēmē in the implication of knowledge of principles, although techne differs in that its intent is making or doing as opposed to disinterested understanding.
As an activity, techne is concrete, variable, and context-dependent. As one observer has argued, techne "was not concerned with the necessity and eternal a priori truths of the cosmos, nor with the a posteriori contingencies and exigencies of ethics and politics. [...] Moreover, this was a kind of knowledge associated with people who were bound to necessity.
I wonder - is what avidya refers to a different object-entity then what I'm referring to with "ignorance"? While the dictionary doesn't distinguish great difference between nescience and ignorance, I think we as philosophers should question that. — iVoyager
I do think science is something more than techne, which includes some acts that are techne. Consider that it is sometimes the role of a scientist to debate in defense of "round earth" against "flat earth". This debate is a techne harnessed to advance scientific interest and knowledge. But the science itself is ideally "disinterested understanding." — iVoyager
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