known unknown

noun

Etymology

Popularized by Donald Rumsfeld in 2002, though used much earlier.

Definitions

  1. An uncertainty of known magnitude, consequence, structure, and probability characteristics

    An uncertainty of known magnitude, consequence, structure, and probability characteristics; something that we know that we don't know.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for known unknown. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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