You are viewing a single comment's thread from:RE: The value of being Intellectually Modest in public policy: taking account of our ignoranceView the full contextzrc (42)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
For me at least, the What I know slice of that pie chart would have to be smaller! :) Way too much out there to know, for me to have that big of a piece lol!
To all of us would do well to know more and to be less vain.
I can't stop hearing Donald Rumsfeld using a quote like this ("known knows etc) to avoid answering a question on WMD ... almost makes him sound smart when I read this article (ps spoiler alert - he wasn't modest and no Socrates... this article jogged my memory) http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/rumsfelds-knowns-and-unknowns-the-intellectual-history-of-a-quip/359719/