known unknown
English
Etymology
Popularized by Donald Rumsfeld in 2002, though used much earlier.
Noun
known unknown (plural known unknowns)
- An uncertainty of known magnitude, consequence, structure, and probability characteristics; something that we know that we don't know.
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