A task could be categorised as known or unknown. This loosely translates to imagined and discovered work types.
Once you validated your problem and know that there is no more discovered work, and only imagined work remaining, your task is now in the known state.
Reference
Knuth, L. (2023, June 2). Work in an efficient team. https://lknuth.dev/writings/efficient_team/
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- There are two stages of a task, which is the unknown and known. Only after validating something was put in the known state.
— ^e0574d from Work in an efficient team