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" The bed of Procrustes : "
Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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BL
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1023112
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b777482
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| Main Entry
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Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,1960-
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The bed of Procrustes : : philosophical and practical aphorisms /\ Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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1st ed.
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New York :: Random House,, ©2010.
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xii, 112 pages ;; 21 cm
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0679643680
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: 1400069971
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: 9780679643685
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: 9781400069972
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects--modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.
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Aphorisms and apothegms.
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Human behavior-- Quotations, maxims, etc.
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Quotations.
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Aphorisms and apothegms.
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818/.602
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PN6271.T35 2010
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