Nice to be Ignorant

Following my confession of ignorance and the assertion that a writer should offer something more, I am amazed to discover that I still want to write even though I am mostly ignorant and have no idea what more I can say. I first went through this five years ago when I collided with the word semiotics and was curious what it meant. Since then I have discovered that semiotics is what I am doing here writing this blog. Now you are reading it. Nice to have company. Don't worry. It's not contagious. You won't have to write your own blog. Promise.

What's next? Not sure. I go to the Wikipedia list of academic disciplines and scroll the mouse wheel seven times. (Seven is a magic number. Three is pretty good too, and eleven.) Then I close my eyes, draw circles with the mouse eleven times, and click left. That takes me to reasoning errors, a subheading of epistemology. When I click on reasoning errors, I wind up in a list of fallacies (ways of getting it wrong), including formal fallacies, propositional fallacies, quantification fallacies, formal syllogistic fallacies, informal fallacies, improper premise, faulty generalizations, questionable cause, statistical fallacies, relevance fallacies, and red herrings. Each of those categories lists subcategories and sub-subcategories. 

Woah! If I'm not careful, I'm going to learn something. A politician would have filled his shopping cart by now and be ready to check out. I'm kidding. That's one of those fallacies. It's free. You just grab and run.

This is going to take a while. I'll be back when I'm finished reading. Have some ice cream. 

Wait, that must be a quantification fallacy. It's going to take longer than ice cream. Plant wheat and come back when you've finished your sandwich.

Isn't this fun? So nice to be ignorant! I feel like a kid in a candy store. I wonder. There are so many ways of getting it wrong, there must be lots of ways  of getting it right. Or is that an improper premise?