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Technology,
Law Practice

Nov. 3, 2021

Wittgenstein rules paradox is crucial for understanding AI and the law

Lawyers need to mindfully consider what they don’t know, even when they do not explicitly realize they are unknowing. The idea is to continually be bolstering your knowingness. That is quite a tongue twister and a bit of a puzzle. Welcome to the famous Wittgenstein rules paradox.

Lance Eliot

Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.

Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.

They say it's the things you don't know that you don't know that are the ones most likely to catch you off-guard (a famed bit of word-salad sorcery).

This popular maxim seems indubitably to make a lot of sense.

One state of mind is the act of not knowing something. Another state of mind is at least having the awareness or acknowledgment that you do not know the something that you do not know. Worse of all would s...

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