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0 pointsimheretolearn5y ago0 comments

> You can be naive, but naive doesn't mean you go online and argue that people who know better are wrong, which is what he did.

Isn't this exactly what being naive means?

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croon5y ago

No, naive is closer to absentmindedness or just not having been exposed to something.

Palmer was suffering from confident ignorance.

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0 pointsimheretolearn5y ago0 comments

> You can be naive, but naive doesn't mean you go online and argue that people who know better are wrong, which is what he did.

Isn't this exactly what being naive means?

croon5y ago

No, naive is closer to absentmindedness or just not having been exposed to something.

Palmer was suffering from confident ignorance.

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