--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltabl...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > <snip> > > "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 now know we don't know. But there are > > also unknown unknowns. These are things we do not know > > we don't know."--Donald Rumsfeld > > Interesting choice from whom to quote
Right, as we all know, I'm a warmongering right-winger who fully supported the Iraq War, so Donald Rumsfeld is my hero. > but I have to admit he did nail something interesting. With all your great expertise in epistemology, I should have thought you'd know "unknown unknowns" is an important concept in that field, not something Rumsfeld invented. (I didn't know that until I noticed there was a Wikipedia page on it as I was searching for the exact Rumsfeld quote.) <snip> > When dealing with statements by Chopra and Maharishi I > don't believe that the most important option to keep > alive is that they might be right about everything. > Their claims are too grandiose and self-serving. Our mind > doesn't have to stay so wide open that our brains fall out Which is why I've repeatedly referred to "keeping the door open a crack"--i.e., so that our brains *don't* fall out, but they might let something new in. It shouldn't be a choice between wide open and closed tight.
