Unknow vs Untangle - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between unknow and untangle

is that unknow is to undo the process of knowing, to lose knowledge of something while untangle is to remove tangles or knots.

To undo the process of knowing, to lose knowledge of something.

* 2004 , William Joseph Jackson, Heaven's fractal net: retrieving lost visions in the humanities: Volume 1 (page 205)

To awaken the conscious self to the principle of the whole or Tao one needs to forget oneself, so that in knowing one unknows .

(untangl)

To remove tangles or knots.

With gentle combing, untangle your hair.

(by extension) To remove confusion or mystery.

It took awhile, but he finally untangled the problem.

* disentangle

* tangle