The bed of Procrustes : philosophical and practical aphorisms /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Penguin Books, 2011.
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300 |a x, 112 pages ;  |c 21 cm 
505 0 |a Procrustes -- Preludes -- Counter narratives -- Matters ontological -- The sacred and the profane -- Chance, success, happiness, and stoicism -- Charming and less charming sucker problems -- Theseus, or, living the Paleo life -- The republic of letters -- The universal and the particular -- Fooled by randomness -- Aesthetics -- Ethics -- Robustness and fragility -- The ludic fallacy and domain dependence -- Epistemology and subtractive knowledge -- The scandal of prediction -- Being a philosopher and managing to remain one -- Economic life and other very vulgar subjects -- The sage, the weak, and the magnificent -- The implicit and the explicit -- On the varieties of love and nonlove -- The end -- Postface. 
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650 0 |a Human behavior  |x Quotations, maxims, etc.  |9 59344 
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