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Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

one with a long experience of the difculties of logic and of the deceptiveness of theories which seem irrefutable, I fnd myself unable to be sure of the rightness of a theory, merely on the ground that I cannot see any point on which it is wrong. But to have constructed a theory of logic which is not at any point obviously wrong is to have achieved a work of extraordinary difculty and importance. This merit, in my opinion, belongs to Mr Wittgenstein’s book, and makes it one which no serious philosopher can aford to neglect.

[Routledge Classics] Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

2001, Routledge - libgen.lc

“I thought of my absolute rejection of death as the natural order.”

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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