"Halbwissen" meaning in German

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  "etymology_text": "From halb (“half”) + Wissen (“knowledge”).",
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    {
      "form": "Halbwissen",
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        "dative",
        "singular"
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          "english": "I hear it said that superficial half-knowledge is harmful and misleading; I hear it claimed that such an encyclopedic half-knowledge is particularly favored by a legal newspaper, which can provide us only fragments from the context of larger theories.",
          "ref": "1856, Heinrich von Gagern, Das Leben des Generals Friedrich von Gagern, page 61:",
          "text": "Ich höre sagen, daß oberflächliches Halbwissen schadet und irreleitet; ich höre behaupten, daß ein solches encyklopädisches Halbwissen besonders durch eine Rechtszeitung begünstigt werde, die uns aus dem Zusammenhange größerer Theorien nur Bruchstücke liefern könne.",
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        "superficial knowledge, especially that of an autodidact who overestimates their own proficiency"
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        "(deprecative) superficial knowledge, especially that of an autodidact who overestimates their own proficiency"
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          "ref": "1856, Heinrich von Gagern, Das Leben des Generals Friedrich von Gagern, page 61:",
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