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Often appears with: want of ideas · undiscoverable connections · sensitive knowledge · religious persecution and toleration · reason and the intellect · poor tracing of ideas · limits of understanding · limits of human power · intuitive knowledge · inner illumination · human ignorance · existence of god
Usually: reflection (1) · crisis of belief (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1)
“He that knows anything, knows this, in the first place, that he need not seek long for instances of his ignorance.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 · insight
Locke gives three causes of ignorance: lack of ideas, lack of a discoverable connection between ideas, and failure to trace and examine one’s ideas thoroughly.
Egyptian darkness, were not the candle of the Lord set up by himself in men's minds, which it is impossible for the breath or power of man wholly to extinguish. 21. Fourthly, Of the three real Existences of which we have certain knowledge. FOURTHLY, As to the fourth sort of our knowledge, viz. of the REAL ACTUAL EXISTENCE OF THINGS, we have an intuitive knowledge of OUR OWN EXISTENCE, and a demonstrative knowledge …