The Black Swan: The Impact of The Highly Improbable (Random House, 2007) by Taleb Nassim Nicholas

Author:Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: epub掌上书苑
Published: 2010-02-05T16:00:00+00:00

_How Not to Be a Nerd__

Let us dig deeper into the problem of knowledge and continue the comparison of Fat Tony and Dr. John in Chapter 9. Do nerds tunnel, meaning, do they focus on crisp categories and miss sources of uncertainty? Remember from the Prologue my presentation of Platonification as a top-down focus on a world composed of these crisp categories.*

(* This idea pops up here and there in history, under different names. Alfred North Whitehead called it the "fallacy of misplaced concreteness," e.g., the mistake of confusing a model with the physical entity that it means to describe.)

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