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*'''{{risk|Known unknown}}''': the stuff you know about but can’t control. | *'''{{risk|Known unknown}}''': the stuff you know about but can’t control. | ||
*'''{{risk|Unknown unknown}}''': the [[black swan]]s. This is where the risk is most acute, precisely because your risk taxonomy, with 20:20 [[hindsight]], is ''guaranteed'' to miss these altogether. | *'''{{risk|Unknown unknown}}''': the [[black swan]]s. This is where the risk is most acute, precisely because your risk taxonomy, with 20:20 [[hindsight]], is ''guaranteed'' to miss these altogether. | ||
===The [[JC]]’s [[ | ===The [[JC]]’s further categories of [[known]] === | ||
{{santayana}} | {{santayana}} | ||
Not included in [[Rumsfeld’s taxonomy]] (perhaps because it doesn’t make much sense at first) | Not included in [[Rumsfeld’s taxonomy]] (perhaps because it doesn’t make much sense at first) are these [[JC]] coinages: | ||
The '''{{risk|unknown known}}'''. Now, before you write this off, well — see the[[Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999]] for the sorts of things a well-ordered market can forget over sixty-odd years. The [[JC]] — who likes a pet theory, as readers will know — feels that [[unknown known]]s might be the riskiest bucket of the lot. | |||
The “'''[[suspected known]]'''”: The embarrassed press officer’s best friend, the “[[unsubstantiated]] allegation”. This is one that the press officer knows to be true but believes nobody else can prove, and which everyone else knows perfectly well to be true, but knows they can’t prove. | |||
{{Sa}} | |||
*[[Truth]] | |||
*[[Unsubstantiated]] |