It does make perfect sense to those who think about what they read. Ha, I
just noticed my spell checker wants to replace "Rumsfeld" with "Rusted".
Some old rusted things still work pretty good. /jim
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[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of andrew fildes
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Subject: [OM] What Rumsfeld knows
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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