Ignorance Is Not Bliss: the Importance of Financial Education

Distributed Contingency Logic and Security

In information security, ignorance is not bliss. It is always stated that hiding the protocols (let the other be ignorant about it) does not increase the security of organizations. However, there are cases that ignorance creates protocols. In this paper, we propose distributed contingency logic, a proper extension of contingency (ignorance) logic. Intuitively, a formula is distributed contingen...

Is Ignorance Bliss?

ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. " Thomas Gray If ignorance were bliss, there is information you would pay not to have. Hence the question is whether a rationally-behaving agent would ever do such a thing. This paper demonstrates that 1. A Bayesian agent with a proper, countably additive prior never maximizes utility by paying not to see cost-free data. 2. The definition of " cost-fre...

When Ignorance is Bliss* Information Asymmetries Enhance Prosocial Behavior in Dicator Games

An Investigation of the Importance of Designing a Family Education Curriculum for Elementary Schools

This study sought to examine the importance of designing a family education curriculum for elementary schools. This qualitative research was carried out through conventional content analysis method. The research sample included 20 experts in curriculum planning, psychologists, sociologists, family counselors, and family educators who were selected by purposive sampling method. Data collection w...

The Soul According to Rāmānuja

Rāmānuja was the founder of Visistādvaita Vedānta School, which is one of the three main schools of Vedānta. According to Rāmānuja, the soul (cit), Brahman, and matter (acit) constitute the three principal ontological realities. Rāmānuja provides some proofs for the existence of the soul, which are mostly based on self-consciousness. The relationship of the soul with the matter, on one hand, an...