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You can't SURVIVE in this country by being anything other than "grossly overpaid" by your standard because the maximum world-wage for any sort of knowledge work is about $5,000/year, and non-knowledge work is even less.
Getting Ricardo Wrong, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The surest and most just path to a good life involves substituting knowledge for non-knowledge resources whenever and wherever we can.
Teacher Pay and Quality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It hinders increasing excellence in means, the substitution of an inexhaustible resource, useful knowledge, for non-knowledge resources.
Economists as Heretics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Meanwhile, the government is working alongside BP, which, as Leifer put it, "may want areas of non-knowledge."
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So, it's really not the author's fault -- if that's even the right word -- for retailing such kooky non-knowledge in this little book.
Book review: 'For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage,' by Tara Parker-Pope 2010
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For the idea of non-knowledge see Bataille 111-18, 129-32.
Notes on ''The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)' 2008
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This famous phrase from the Introduction, which describes a visionary hermeneutic in the first two versions, always already contained the trace of something else: an unknowing that returns the cogito to its unthought, a non-knowledge at the heart of "knowing" that becomes the very core of the epistemology of the third version.
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Dance Magazine, in September 1974, described the work as portraying “the discovery of all expression for the first time ... the journey from the paradise of non-knowledge to the hell of knowledge.”
Margalit Oved. 2009
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I'd be curious why anyone thinks it's worth paying attention to anything else they say after such a demonstration of non-knowledge.
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Often, older generations interpret this non-knowledge of younger peopleas deliberateimpudence, and subsequently refuse to become complicit in the new technology.
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