Potential knowns

Potential knowns /pə(ʊ)ˈtɛnʃ(ə)l nəʊnz/ (n.)
(Reductionist baloney) The complete set of all knowns, known or unknown, comprising the total intellectual energy of the semantic universe.

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There are six types of known.

The Rumsfeld three:

Known knowns: Things you do know you know;
Known unknowns: Things you do know you don’t know;
Unknown unknowns: Things you don’t know you don’t know;

And the Jolly Contrarian three:

Unknown knowns: Things you don’t know you do know.
Not officially known: Things you know but the general public can’t prove.
Knowable unknowns: Things you don’t know, but think you do know, for the time being, because computers.

Potential knowns

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