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Re: [OM] What Rumsfeld knows

Subject: Re: [OM] What Rumsfeld knows
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 15:45:29 -0700
At 07:28 AM 12/4/2003 +1100, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>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?


It's like the Epistemology 101 courses back in University...  8^>


Garth


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