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Spotty J
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Spotty J asked in Social SciencePsychology · 9 years ago

Is there a term for this pathological behavior?

"Someone refuses to accept an evident or obvious truth, because they lack the knowledge to understand it."

Is there already a term for this type of ignorance-based defective behavior?

Update:

Yes I know this sounds like I'm some wacko mad because people don't believe me. That's not it. Generic question, I just occasionally run into this kind of intellectual reactionary behavior in reading about various competing ideas, and was thinking there SHOULD be a label for it.

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago
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    Denial, maybe? Something close to that.

  • Mircat
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    What have you been trying to tell someone that they won't believe and whom you are now calling ignorant and defective?

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