Milder forms of this pattern are sometimes described in modern times as the Dunning-Kruger effect (after two psychologists who have studied it): idiocy tends not to fully recognize its own existence; incompetence prevents you from being aware of your own incompetence.6 Socrates regards the spirit of that idea as having broad and deep application. Our ignorance makes us unconscious of our ignorance. We are philosophically feeble, and too philosophically feeble to know it.
