TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taleb,Nassim Nicholas
TI  - The bed of Procrustes: philosophical and practival aphorisms$dNassim Nicholas Taleb
T2  - Incerto / Nassim Nicholas Taleb$l
SN  - 9780812982404
AV  - PN6271 
U1  - 082 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Aphorisms and apothegms
KW  - Human behavior
KW  - Quotations, maxims, etc
N1  - "Revised and updated'--Cover; "With fifty percent more material than the hardcover"--Page 4 of cover
N2  - 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
ER  -