Knowing that you do not know everything

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We show that a rational agent with true and refinable knowledge of events cannot know if she knows everything or not. This epistemic limitation is not resolved by introspection about tautologies or by learning about new events.

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@article{rathke2026knowing,
  title = {Knowing that you do not know everything},
  author = {Alex A. T. Rathke},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {We show that a rational agent with true and refinable knowledge of events cannot know if she knows everything or not. This epistemic limitation is not resolved by introspection about tautologies or by learning about new events.},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15264},
  keywords = {econ.TH},
  eprint = {2604.15264},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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