A Path Method: Knowns and unknowns
Even though our unknowns tend to outnumber our knowns in any opportunity space, we list any we have. We just have to be careful not to sneak any assumptions on our knowns list, even if we feel strongly that they carry the weight of “facts.” We also need to watch for generalizations of “all” and “none.” We can translate these into facts by framing these as “some.”
The only thing we have in abundance in any space of uncertainty is our ever-shifting list of unknowns. We include on this list anything that is not (yet) data-based fact. They are what, at this point, we don’t know for sure. We include what seems knowable as well as what seems unknowable.