how does one arrive at knowledge or certainty given known knowns, known unknowns, and the seemingly metaphysical unknown unknowns? — Posty McPostface
Will work if X is everything we know. — szardosszemagad
So X has to be the complete sum of all knowledge by a human or by a unit. — szardosszemagad
What is not X then becomes not only a known unknown, but an unkown unknown. — szardosszemagad
Therefore I must say that 2 does not exist; it's either known knowns, or unknown unknowns. This is the end point of the reasoning. — szardosszemagad
So according to your essay, the test proves that "known unknowns" are in fact not in existence; and reality is such, that unknown unknowns are not known. — szardosszemagad
Zizek does an interesting analysis of this in one of his several million online vids. And I thought we discussed it here or on old PF before. — Baden
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