In the modern world, ignorance is first and foremost a bad thing. With the omnipresent buzz about knowledge societies, there is a broad consensus that information is a key resource of modern societies, giving an inherently negative ring to the absence of knowledge. Historians of science have been particularly hesitant to challenge this rationale. ...
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