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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Penguin Books, 2011.Description: x, 112 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780241954096
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818.602 22
LOC classification:
  • PN6271 .T35 2010
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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Book Book Ayesha Abed Library New Arrivals Ayesha Abed Library New Arrivals 818.602 TAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 13/08/2026 3010044804
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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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