Agnotology: Ignorance and Absence or Towards a Sociology of Things That Aren't There

Social Epistemology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 4-25

  Croissant, Jennifer L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Absence; Agnotology; Error; Ignorance; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893217363     PISSN: 02691728     EISSN: 14645297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2013.862880     Document Type: Article

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