Andrew,
You will note that I appended the Rumsfeld quote without comment,
neither implying approval nor condemnation. Upon first reading, I
judged it to be an example of governmental obfuscation and
gobbledygook, just some good ol' bureauctatic doublespeak. But
the more I studied it, the more sense it started to make to me too.
Maybe you, like me, are onto (or just on) something. Welcome to
the next level. Therapy is optional. :-)
Walt
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"...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
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: andrew fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 07:28:51 +1100
>Walt appended...
>
>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>"...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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