What is the difference between simple ignorance and compound ignorance?
Simple ignorance is not knowing something, while not thinking that one knows it. Compound ignorance, on the other hand, is not knowing something and not knowing that one does not know it. Thus, it is composed of two ignorances: ignorance of the matter, and ignorance of one's ignorance of it.
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