Andrew -- I suspect the Philosophy did it! :-)
Craig H. (BA in Philosophy!)
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Subject: [OM] What Rumsfeld knows
> 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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