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A "Rumsfeldian" visualizer. Neat! http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/rumsfelds-knowns-and-unknowns-the-intellectual-history-of-a-quip/359719/

• coldtea 11y ago
  I always find it strange that people found that thing Rumsfeld said dumb, bizarre or (worse) his own invention [1]. Those are standard epistemological distinctions, known (and written about) since at least the times of Aristotle. [1] (I mean the philosophical essence of what he said -- not that he didn't tried to use it an an excuse for BS).
  • gojomo 11y ago
    I also find it interesting that the aerospace/defense world (and co-influencing cultures in engineering and government) have sometimes used 'unk-unk' as shorthand for 'unknown unknowns'. http://www.waywordradio.org/unk_unk/ http://www.waywordradio.org/unk_unk/