(January 18, 2015 at 12:41 pm)Sionnach Wrote:(January 18, 2015 at 12:32 pm)Davka Wrote: Not always ignorant.
Despite the aversion you may have to using that word, that is precisely what they are. Ignorant. An individual who prefers the lie of fantastical fiction does not strike me as an individual knowledgeable about reality.
That's not ignorance, it's delusion or psychosis.
Was John Nash ignorant? I suppose you could argue that schizophrenics are ignorant before they learn that they have schizophrenia, but we're getting into the whole "everyone is ignorant of something" territory now. Which is true, but it's not what most people think when they hear the word.