Re: or more simply, is there order?

Posted by Phil Henshaw-2 on Oct 03, 2008; 3:31am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Wittgenstein-tp1133169p1140753.html

‘The Black Swan’ was mentioned this AM on the radio in NY and I ordered a copy.   Nassim Taleb seems like a prolific writher and fascinating guy.   The other author mentioned on the segment was Dan Ariely, author of "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions” maybe worth looking at too.

 

Phil

 

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My daughter, an urban planner in Bruxelles, recommended that I read The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by epistemologist Nassim Nicholas Taleb.  I did look it up and found it might be pertinent to this string.  Has anybody read it?
Paul


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