It's Simple, Really--Was Re: Plain English Awards - Rumsfeld Honoured

[msbeadsley]

Iggy said:
> Ummm...  Let me simplify it even further:
> There are things we know that we know.  (Like our name.)
> There are things we know we don't know.  (Like the exact 
> temperature of Pluto in Kelvin.)
> And there's stuff out there we're completely unaware of in any 
> manner. (I can't give an example here, because then I'd know that I 
> don't know it...)
> Even simpler... Yes?  *grin*

Oh, well done.

But there's a difference between stuff that not only isn't on our 
radar but is so far outside our experience that it will never concern 
us; then there's the stuff that is going to rear up and bite us that 
we don't even see an outline of before it's chomped our heads off. 
(With most stuff, we don't care. Determining the difference between 
them is part of what the Rumsfeld quote was about, IMO.)

Sandy