The Bed of Procrustes : Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms /
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Bok · Engelsk · 2016 · Quotations.
| Omfang | xiii, 156 sider ;
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| Utgave | Random House trade paperback edition.
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| Opplysninger | "Revised and updated'--Cover.. - "With fifty percent more material than the hardcover"--Page 4 of cover.. - 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 antifragility -- 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.
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| ISBN | 0812982401. - 9780812982404
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