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The Five Orders of Ignorance
what it is that I do not know. Example: I cannot give a good example of 2OI,
of course.
Third Order Ignorance (3OI): Lack of Process
I have Third Order Ignorance (3OI) when I do not know of a suitably effi-
cient way to find out that I do not know that I do not know something,
which is lack of a suitable knowledge-gathering process.
This presents me with a major problem: If I have 3OI, I do not know of a
way to find out that there are things that I do not know that I do not know.
Therefore, I cannot change those things that I do not know that I do not
know into either things that I know, or at least things that I know that I do
not know, as a step toward converting the things that I know that I do not
know into things that ...