known unknown

English

Etymology

Popularized by Donald Rumsfeld in 2002, though used much earlier.

Noun

known unknown (plural known unknowns)

  1. An uncertainty of known magnitude, consequence, structure, and probability characteristics; something that we know that we don't know.

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