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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