Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 04/10/06 05:13

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed dorayme
<doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> writing in news:doraymeRidThis-
C797FC.08383710042006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au:

>> ... In other words, there are things
>> that you don't know that you don't know.
>
> "there are things that you do not know...."
>
> Like that there is an island called Tasmania.
>
> And further, you are suggesting, you may not know that you do not
> know that there is an island called Tasmania.
>
> And when shall we stop? Is it then the case that you do not know
> that you do not know that you do not know...
>
> In other words, is ignorance something quite bottomless?
>
> Why depress us all, Adrienne? It is more comforting to think
> there is some limit, a floor to our mortal deficiencies.
>

On the contrary, it's nice to know that there are things you don't know
that you don't know. These are sometimes the wild solutions to problems
you think would never work, but for some reason they do. These are the
times you slap your forhead and wonder why you didn't think of that
before (because you didn't know you didn't know). But, the point is,
that you did think of it, because you really DID know it all along.

--
Adrienne Boswell
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