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I always thought that the quote sucked, because it left out what was Rumsfeld's biggest failing: the unknown knowns. I.e., the things he knew that weren't true.

• endtime 16y ago
  Wouldn't "unknown knowns" be things he knew, but didn't know he knew?
  • hugh3 16y ago
    Yeah. A thing you think you know but which isn't true would just be another type of unknown unknown.
• philwelch 16y ago
  Actually, it's literally impossible to know something that isn't true. Plato defined knowledge as "true justified belief", which is an imperfect definition but good enough for our purposes.
  • MaysonL 16y ago
    I suppose I could have put "knew" in scare quotes as well as italics.
    • philwelch 16y ago
      Actually, as endtime pointed out that would have still been wrong.