Apr 1, 2008

fooling around

“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know”

Aren't we fooling ourselves?

4 comments:

Shashank said...

i remember reading this in one of the psychology courses that i did!

broca's area said...

u a psychologist?? or interested in it]

Pritesh Jain said...

@shashank: Tabhi to aap gyan-guru kahlate hai... :)

@broc: Arre no dude. I read it in some news article. This was quoted by Donald Rumsfeld (Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush)

Shashank said...

actually .. there is a thing called .. 'unknown knowns' i.e. things we know but we don't know that we know.

woh broc .. psychology waala sawaal tumse nahin poochh raha hai .. mujhe poochh raha hai baby! ;)