Liabe Brave said:You're restating my position, so evidently I didn't make it clear. I tried to delineate an explicit distinction between "not having an appointment to learn fact [x]" and "not caring to ever know fact [x]". The former is pretty much a default stance in a world overfull of data; the latter is ignorant. That I don't even know what finite Abelian groups are is part of my poor mathematical learning, and I have no clue if or when I'll ever make up that lack. But if I felt pride or at least no chagrin about this, I'd be a dolt.
You can't distinguish between the two like that because a person's life is finite so there's always the subconscious prioritization of tasks. Naturally, we do things that interests us. If I had a life that lasts an eternity, OBVIOUSLY somewhere along the line, Bible-reading would get its own slot in my schedule. But right now, it's just not interesting enough for me to expend time on it. So naturally, I dismiss it and do things that interests me more.
In your words, "not having an appointment to learn fact [x]" LEADS to "not caring to ever know fact [x]". They're not two distinct positions like how you describe it.