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Subject: [OM] What Rumsfeld knows
From: andrew fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 07:28:51 +1100
Walt appended...

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"...as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know
we know.  We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say,
we know there are some things we do not know.  But there are also
unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know." -- Donald
Rumsfeld

This bothers me. I know he got an award for unintelligibility for this but it actually makes perfect sense to me. It's clearer than a lot of epistemological ideas I deal with. Have I been teaching Philosophy for too long? Can we really know anything? Should I seek therapy?
AndrewF
(I know I left my mind here somewhere..)

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