People aren’t reliably good at knowing what they’re ignorant about, so having some heuristics for identifying ignorance would be a good idea.
Did Wittgenstein mean ordinary ignorance or comprehensive Taoist ignorance?
The former, I think. Not sure I know the concepts behind the latter.
I think the advice is basically saying “Don’t make grand proclamations about things you have no way of knowing about.” A nice (if cliched) example might be life after death.
People aren’t reliably good at knowing what they’re ignorant about, so having some heuristics for identifying ignorance would be a good idea.
Did Wittgenstein mean ordinary ignorance or comprehensive Taoist ignorance?
The former, I think. Not sure I know the concepts behind the latter.
I think the advice is basically saying “Don’t make grand proclamations about things you have no way of knowing about.” A nice (if cliched) example might be life after death.