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cjsmith ([personal profile] cjsmith) wrote2005-10-03 01:56 pm

Know-nothing arrogance

(This idea has been running through my brain for some time. I finally said it in a comment in someone else's journal. Reposting, after nitpicky edits, here.)

There should be a specific word meaning "the type and amount of arrogance that leads a person with no formal training and no experience in a particular subject to believe he knows that subject better than someone who has lots of formal training and/or lots of experience in it". 'Cause it's common enough to deserve a name.

Whatever people decide to call it, I hope it's surgically correctable.

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2005-10-04 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Presumptuous is very good. Closer even than hubris -- more specific.

I do love that quote!