donald rumsfled known unknowns

donalds certain unknowns

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[99THORax]

war criminal??? thumps up?

[SlicedBeefNWotNot]

what about unknown knowns? he missed that one out

[prexadytepic]

Did they ever find the WMD's?

[amy notker]

You are right, there are indeed unknown knowns... but this man, like many politicians, simply talks around the issue and basically says nothings. He is guilty of Catch-22 phrases and of answering questions without answering them. That's what makes him such a prick.

[cat Weazle]

regardless of whether this makes sense or not and how clever you may or may not be, the guy is still a lying twat like the rest of his bunch of loonies

[Alexander Bird]

While I was never a fan of Rumsfeld, he is quite right on this point. And professional philosophers will back him up on this (if not much else). As someone else has pointed out, there is the category of unknown knowns --- we know something but are not aware of the fact that we know it.

[Nicholas Rishel]

Known unknowns - things we know we need to research, the results of that research might take more or less time, but we know we can figure it out before we invest into this project.

Unknown unknowns - We will start the project not knowing these things will be a problem. These will derail our project in ways we can not foresee.

Given the context it might be a silly statement, but in and of itself it explains the mentality of approaching larger projects quite succinctly.

[junaid113]

look up "absense of evidence boondocks" on youtube and ull see how i got here lol.

[Michael Stock]

Its a brilliant speech and pretty simple to understand.

[Foxboy106]

i love how everybody laughed at his ridiculous statement

[DarkMatter2525]

Indeed the internet would've been an unknown unknown for them, but not for everyone.

[akoon tong]

HMM how about someone who recently just found out about the internet, although the internet has been around for a long time, does that mean the unkown is known but unkown by the unkown?