The paradox arises for people who lack a concept of “known unknowns” as distinct from “unknown unknowns”. If our knowledge of x can only be in the state of “we know what x is and everything about it” or “we don’t know anything about x and aren’t even aware that anything like x exists”, then the reasoning is all correct. However, for many things, that’s a false binary: there are a lot of intermediate states between “zero knowledge of the concept of x” and “100% knowledge of x”.
Gracias, that’s the exactly the point in me humble opinion. The origin (0, 0) for all knowledge is late Donald Rumsfelds’ unknown unknowns. That means we made what could only be described as a quantum leap in epistemology. Raises the question do we know anything we didn’t know already?
The paradox arises for people who lack a concept of “known unknowns” as distinct from “unknown unknowns”. If our knowledge of x can only be in the state of “we know what x is and everything about it” or “we don’t know anything about x and aren’t even aware that anything like x exists”, then the reasoning is all correct. However, for many things, that’s a false binary: there are a lot of intermediate states between “zero knowledge of the concept of x” and “100% knowledge of x”.
Gracias, that’s the exactly the point in me humble opinion. The origin (0, 0) for all knowledge is late Donald Rumsfelds’ unknown unknowns. That means we made what could only be described as a quantum leap in epistemology. Raises the question do we know anything we didn’t know already?