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    It is not the case that The absence of knowledge does not entail conscious ignorance of that absence

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    • 1.Metacognitive awareness is a constitutive feature of rational minds, not an optional addition to their epistemic states.
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    • 2.A mind capable of knowledge-acts is thereby capable of registering their absence as a felt privation, not mere non-occurrence.
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    • 3.Heytesbury's separation of absence-of-knowledge from conscious ignorance conflates the logical and phenomenological dimensions of epistemic states.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Socratic ignorance, as theorized from the Meno onward, treats the awareness of not-knowing as itself a structured cognitive achievement requiring conscious attention.
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    • 2.If knowledge requires actively apprehending a fact, then the disposition to seek knowledge presupposes some conscious registration of its current absence.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Knowledge is an evidence-based act of considering something and apprehending its factuality
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    • 2.The absence of such an act is not itself a conscious state of ignorance
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