The bed of Procrustes : philosophical and practical aphorisms, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The bed of Procrustes : philosophical and practical aphorisms, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Title remainder

philosophical and practical aphorisms

Statement of responsibility

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Instantiates

• The bed of Procrustes : philosophical and practical aphorisms

Publication

• New York, Random House, c2010

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

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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1270278

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21 cm.

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First edition

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xii, 112 pages

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9781400069972

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(alk. paper)

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2010036866

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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u493418

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• (Sirsi) 1270278
• (OCoLC)663822337