{"id":8712,"date":"2013-06-14T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T11:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/14\/not-sure-and-dont-know\/"},"modified":"2013-06-14T11:33:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T11:33:09","slug":"not-sure-and-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/14\/not-sure-and-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Not Sure&#8217; and &#8216;Don&#8217;t Know&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">They are not semantically equivalent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Suppose you have no idea who Hitler&#39;s Minister of Propaganda was.&#0160; If asked, you should say, &#39;I don&#39;t know,&#39; not &#39;I&#39;m not sure.&#39;&#0160; If, on the other hand, you think it was Joseph Goebbels on the basis of a history course taken long ago, then &#39;I&#39;m not sure&#39; is appropriate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&#39;Not sure&#39; implies some knowledge of the subject matter but not enough to justify one&#39;s being, well, <em>sure<\/em>.&#0160; &#39;Don&#39;t know&#39; lacks this implication.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are not semantically equivalent. Suppose you have no idea who Hitler&#39;s Minister of Propaganda was.&#0160; If asked, you should say, &#39;I don&#39;t know,&#39; not &#39;I&#39;m not sure.&#39;&#0160; If, on the other hand, you think it was Joseph Goebbels on the basis of a history course taken long ago, then &#39;I&#39;m not sure&#39; is appropriate. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/14\/not-sure-and-dont-know\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Not Sure&#8217; and &#8216;Don&#8217;t Know&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}