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001 2010036866
003 DLC
005 20130606074647.0
008 100830s2010 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2010036866
020 $a9781400069972 (alk. paper)
020 $a9780679643685 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPN6271$b.T35 2010
082 00 $a818/.602$222
100 1 $aTaleb, Nassim Nicholas,$d1960-
245 14 $aThe bed of Procrustes :$bphilosophical and practical aphorisms /$cNassim Nicholas Taleb.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$cc2010.
300 $axii, 112 p. ;$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.
650 0 $aHuman behavior$xQuotations, maxims, etc.