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
On 16/03/2011, at 10:13 AM, Donald wrote:
> A very famous son-of-a-bitch once talked about 'unknowns' and 'knowns',
> and there are a whole load of known unknowns about nature and nuclear
> technology. Or are they unknown knowns?
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