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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

known known en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. Certainties of known magnitude, consequence, structure, and probability characteristics; something that we know that we know.

Forms

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known knowns Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

unknown unknown · unknown known · known unknown

wikipedia: Donald Rumsfeld