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April 28, 2010

I Wasn’t Born Yesterday, You Know

Certainly educators and authors do not intend to be in error; they are just ignorant ('unknowing') of the structure that underlies the surface appearance of these words, and they are agnostic about the tools to investigate it. The Oxford English Dictioary defines an agnostic as "One who holds that the existence of anything beyond and behind material phenomena is unknown and (so far as can be judged) unknowable."
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