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- 题名/责任者:
- The bed of Procrustes : philosophical and practical aphorisms / by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- 出版发行项:
- London, England : Penguin Books, 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780241954096
- ISBN:
- 0241954096
- 载体形态项:
- x, 112 pages ; 20 cm
- 个人责任者:
- Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960- author
- 论题主题:
- Aphorisms and apothegms
- 中图法分类号:
- H313
- 内容附注:
- 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
- 摘要附注:
- Why are we so often unwilling to accept that life is unpredictable? In this brilliant book Nassim Nicholas Taleb distils his idiosyncratic wisdom to demolish our illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance and erudition against modern philistinism and phoniness. Only by accepting what we don't know, he shows, can we see the world as it really is
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