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This document is page 194 from a text titled 'Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?', bearing the Bates stamp HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015884. The text explores philosophical concepts of knowledge, contrasting mathematician David Hilbert's belief that 'we must know' with Donald Rumsfeld's famous quote about 'known unknowns' and 'unknown unknowns.' While part of a House Oversight production (potentially related to a larger investigation), this specific page contains no direct references to Jeffrey Epstein, his associates, or victims.
People (5)
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| David Hilbert | Mathematician / Subject |
German mathematician discussed regarding his philosophy on knowable truths and abstract geometry.
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| Donald Rumsfeld | Former U.S. Secretary of Defense |
Quoted regarding 'known knowns' and 'unknown unknowns'; compared to Hilbert.
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| Bertrand Russell | Philosopher / Logician |
Mentioned as a comparison to Rumsfeld regarding longevity in the public eye.
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| Richard Nixon | Former U.S. President |
Mentioned as a President under whom Rumsfeld served.
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| George W. Bush | Former U.S. President |
Mentioned as a President under whom Rumsfeld served.
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| Whitehouse |
Location of the press conference where Rumsfeld made his famous quote.
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| U.S. Department of Defense |
Implied by the mention of 'U.S. Secretary of Defense'.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.
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Rumsfeld served as Secretary of Defense under Nixon.
Rumsfeld served as Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush.
Text compares their longevity in the public eye.
Key Quotes (3)
"Wir müssen wissen — wir werden wissen! “We must know — we will know!”"Source
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"“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”"Source
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"“It must be possible to replace in all geometric statements the words point, line, plane by table, chair, beer mug.”"Source
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194 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
write down the rules and then play the ‘game of mathematics’ to derive every possible truth. Hilbert despised the idea that there could be unknowable things and was a forthright speaker. His battle cry was: Wir müssen wissen — wir werden wissen! “We must know — we will know!” He believed there were no fundamental unknowns in the world.
Donald Rumsfeld famously summed up the problem of unknowns in an attempt to clarify a question from a journalist at a Whitehouse press conference:
“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
Interestingly Donald Rumsfeld, like Bertrand Russell, is another person to span a huge swath of time in the public eye. He was both the youngest and the oldest serving U.S. Secretary of Defense, serving under both Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. We will shortly discover Rumsfeld’s convoluted view of the world turns out to be closer to the truth than Hilbert’s tidy mathematical aspiration.
As well as believing there were no unknowable unknowns Hilbert thought mathematics was completely abstract. You did not need to know what you were talking about. Whether the symbols meant dogs, cats or numbers all you needed to do was apply the rules and all would be well. His belief is captured in his quote below.
“It must be possible to replace in all geometric statements the words point, line, plane by table, chair, beer mug.”
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
Geometry with Beer and Furniture
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