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If your parents are in town and ask where the nearest weed dispensary is, you might pretend not to know, even though you know. That's an unknown known.

• quelltext 7y ago
  But you still know it. Pretending not to know doesn't render it unknown knowledge. To the other person/parents they don't know that you know, but that's looking at knowledge of party a vs. party b, which is mot quite what all this is about. Yo your parents it's still a known unknown (hence why they ask you). I believe the closest to unknown knowns would be temporary loss of knowledge, where at a given moment you don't manage to make the right connections between the known knowns. So it's a "could know" given the right moment or prerequisite calculation step/thought, but right there you don't so it's an unknown known.
  • rriepe 7y ago
    Yeah, I think the add-on is more of a cheeky social commentary. Biases could also be unknown knowns.