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In other words, know-nothingism, now repackaged as know-everythingism.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2023

And that’s what we’ll become if modern know-nothingism prevails.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2018

Several thoughtful writers have already laid bare the slapdash know-nothingism of today’s mod-ish atheism, but Spencer’s not beating a dead horse—he’s beating a live one, in the hope that Nietzsche might rush to embrace it.

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2014

But it's in her chapter on creativity — not a quality always associated with the data-crunching business of science — that she makes her most compelling case against the willful know-nothingism that plagues public debate.

From Time • Sep. 28, 2011

The Greek thinkers furnish the first instance of intellectual freedom, of the "self-detachment and self-abnegating vigor of criticism" which is most touchingly illustrated in the honest "know-nothingism" of Socrates.

From The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by Robinson, James Harvey