Olympus-OM
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [OM] OT: Tsunami

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Tsunami
From: Donald <d1956m198d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:47:58 +0000
On 15/03/2011 23:53, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> I was just reading about all that again while rereading the Black Swan 
> thesis. It made perfect sense to me at the time and I found the criticism 
> facile and ignorant. (This does not mean that I'm a Rumsfeld fan - just 
> engaging in civil debate here).  In fact I was disappointed that he left out 
> 'unknown knowns' - the things that we don't realise that we actually do know.
> There's a good analysis of the quote and its history here -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
>
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>

That's a relief. Made perfect sense to me at the time, I thought it was 
just my scrambled brain. My surprise was that he could exhibit such 
awareness, but still blunder on regardless!

D.

-- 
I'm a Mac, but I'm happy with my PC.

-- 
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Sponsored by Tako
Impressum | Datenschutz