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050	0	0	_aPN6271 _b.T35 2010
082	0	0	_a818.602 _222
100	1		_aTaleb, Nassim Nicholas, _d1960- _936298
245	1	4	_aThe bed of Procrustes : _bphilosophical and practical aphorisms / _cNassim Nicholas Taleb.
260			_aLondon : _bPenguin Books, _c2011.
300			_ax, 112 pages ; _c21 cm
505	0		_aProcrustes -- 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.
650		0	_aAphorisms and apothegms. _948119
650		0	_aHuman behavior _xQuotations, maxims, etc. _959344
852			_aAyesha Abed Library _cGeneral Stacks
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