If I don't know what I don't know, do I know anything?

Question

If I don't know what I don't know, do I know anything?

Answer 1

you know what you know

Answer 2

Yes, because you are unaware of things that you don't know. But anything can be just what it sounds it is- anything. This question itself is something you DO know. You know how to type, you know to type in English, you also know how to use Yahoo Answers ;)

So that in a sense IS knowing SOMETHING and technically anything and something are related. So there.

Hope that helped :D

Answer 3

No,you know everything

Answer 4

The ancient Master, Socrates has to get the 'best answer' award for this...

One who knows not, and does not know that he knows not, he is a fool, shun him....

One who knows that he knows not is a student, teach him.

One who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.

One who knows and knows not that he knows, is asleep, awake him!

Answer 5

truth be told in comparison to the amount of knowlegde out there we all know virtually nothing. those who say otherwise know even less

Answer 6

ouch...too early...you made my brain hurt....lol

Yes, you would know some thing.

Answer 7

You can't know what you don't know because if you knew then it would be something you know, therefore, you know what you know and if you learn something that you didn't know before it becomes something you know.

Answer 8

friend,

you are in a simple state from where you can learn things.

The proverb or the adage goes like this:

there are four types of persons in the world, they are;

One who knows not and knows not that he knows not,

He is a fool shun him,

  

one who knows not but knows that he knows not,

He is simple teach him.

One who knows and knows not that he knows,

He is asleep awake him,

One who knows and knows that he knows,

he is wise , follow him.

So you are simple to receive knowledge.

Answer 9

you know everything

Answer 10

I don't know, if you don't know what you don't know, whether you don't know everything.

Answer 11

If you don't know what you don't know, you know anything except knowing what you know. Understand?

Answer 12

People who don't know what they don't know are called knowitalls.  That's not a good thing to be.  An inquisitive mind is one that never stops learning.

Answer 13

yes......... buddy ......... you know who you are....... what are able to do and not to do........ thatz something great.....

cheersssssss.......

Answer 14

No.

Answer 15

12?

Answer 16

Yes.  You know the things that you know.

Answer 17

yes, you may know what you do know:)

Answer 18

If you do not know what you do not know, you should be knowing what you know. All that is left out of whatever you had not known should be known to you.

Answer 19

well if you know that you dont know what you dont know then you must know something to not know something man you need to quit hittin that bong so hard your freakn out man

Answer 20

proabably not! sounds like ya don't know a darned thing

- fer crying out loud you don't even know for sure that you don't know the stuff you don't know.

Answer 21

all of us don't know what we don't know until something happens and show us that thing. example: you don't feel you have a head until it hurts the  same thing goes to your fingers , eyes , etc etc.... you know what you know that you know , and you know what you don't know that you know and you don't know what you don't know that you know and you don't know what you don't knwo that you don't know it's as simple as that:

someone konws and he knows that he knows an:educated

someone knows and he doesn't know that he knows an: idiot

someone doesn't know and he knows that he doesn't know a:modest and willing to learn

and someone doesn't know and he doesn't know that he doesn't know an: ignorant

Answer 22

I don't know.