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.
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