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Rumsfeld’s Knowns and Unknowns: The Intellectual History of a Quip

IDEAS Posted: March 31, 2014 10:11 pm

“I recall many people viewing it as handwaving nonsense meant to cover over reality. It was a laughingstock … but wasn’t [it] a brilliantly pithy piece of popular epistemology? Decoupled from its context, it seemed smart … and I’d wager most people couldn’t tell you what Rumsfeld was talking about when he said it.”

IDEAS Published: 03.27.14

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 03.27.14

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