What does "Deny Ignorance" mean?

[Anna]

What is truth, anyway? That's a big question, from 30 thousand feet, and I doubt we're going to answer it on any forum.

Yet, we can somewhat point out what is false. Or, at least, what is inconsistent. Where sets of facts, which always exist within some model of reality and interpretation, are inconsistent. Where personal experience and empirically reproducible observations contradict.

Pretending there aren't contradictions is a form of ignorance...

Ok. Have you read Plato's Socratic Dialogues? I tried once reading it and, by gods... I think I know why the Greeks had enough and killed the man. Because what's the point of deconstructing someone's beliefs if the end result is confusion only? What's the point  proving someone wrong if we don't know what is right ourselves? And what's the point of exposing the lie if we can't show someone the truth?

I consider all the musings about the impossibility to discern the truth as mere philosophizing. If people engage in discussions or debates, it's because they either are convinced they are right or believe they can learn what is right from others.

I understand "denying ignorance" as taking everything I read, watch or hear with a grain of salt, verifying the information I receive but only if I'm interested in the matter. There are things that are "meh" for me and there's no need for me to wrap my head around it.

In the forums, it means checking if someone's arguments are valid and exposing the flaws in argumentation. It also means defending my views as well as I can. But again, it only applies to the topics that I'm interested or emotionally invested in. I also must have some knowledge about the topic if I'm to engage in a debate and have a strong conviction that my thesis is right.

There's no need, in my opinion, to regard a debate as something negative. Many of the discussions here and on ATS are actually debates despite not having a rigid form. It's the conflict of ideas that can descend into a flame war but doesn't have to.