The Unknown Known begins with its subject, Donald Rumsfeld, reading one of his millions of memos, “snowflakes,” his staff called them, so thick did they fall, the one where he writes of known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns, and the most mysterious of the bunch, unknown knowns, which he defines as things you think you know, but later learn you didn’t.
Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. The task of philosophy is not to provide answers or solutions, but to submit to This holds especially for today’s public debates on ecological threats, on lack of faith, on democracy and the “war on terror”, in which the “unknown knowns”, the silent presuppositions we are … We can acknowledge 1 by asserting that 'X'. ... it is open to sense experience and try to interpret it within the known aspects of what sanity is. Thus, there is a difference in meaning. There are known unknowns. And this one God is better understood as the monster, God-zilla, because he knows and is master over gazillion bites of information. Rather than attempt to prove the existence or reality of Gods existence as Thomas Aquinas attempted to do regarding the theological question, Pascal said the question of God's existence was irrelevant.
He knows everyone that was, is, and will be.
Not only is he guiding the war in Iraq, he has been a pilot, a congressman, an ambassador, a businessman, and a civil servant. It's hard not to insist that someone out there knows the truth; that somebody holds the key that could bring any of these unexplained mysteries to light.
"Known unknown" implies there are things we know we don't know, while "unknown known" could imploy things we know but don't yet realize the value. There are things we don't know we don't know. There are things we don’t know we don’t know. While supernatural events and conspiracy theories are fascinating, it's the murders and disappearances that are especially antagonizing. Rather than attempt to prove the existence or reality of Gods existence as Thomas Aquinas attempted to do regarding the theological question, Pascal said the question of God's existence was irrelevant. And there are things that we don’t know that we don’t know. This reminds me of the Pascalian wager. These last are the “unknown unknowns” made famous in a comment by former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. Plus, is the same God of science, and of science fiction. Errol Morris on Rumsfeld, the truth and "The Unknown Known" Our greatest interviewer meets the Bush era's great bullshit artist, who has no doubts, no regrets and no questions
There are things that we know. For us to begin examining known unknowns and unknown unknowns, we first have to acknowledge and understand 1 & 2, to get to 3, for there anything meaningful to be said at all. There are known unknowns. It has been estimated that, from the beginning of civilization — 5,000 years ago or more — until 2003, humanity created a total of five exabytes (billion gigabytes) of information.