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what does /lit/ think about this?
/lit/ loves Taleb but also doesn't like analytic philosophy.
does /lit/ agree with this power ranking list?
or is Taleb wrong?

>> No.14533472

He also thinks Romans > Greeks. Another thing he's wrong about.

>> No.14533478

I'm making it my duty to report any and all threads I see about this Arab imbecile. If you're not faggot like OP I suggest you do the same.

>> No.14533482

Taleb's grift is easy to see with a lot of hindsight and watching him for a long time. He often latches onto something and says he's a fan/follower of it, then later turns on it. He's done this with a lot of people and fields. You can find in his older works about being a greek and not a roman, yet now it is the other way around. He also did this with behavioral economics. Much of "The Black Swan" quotes large amount of research in both behavioral economics and the heuristics/biases program in psychology, but these days he takes the opposite critical stance to it.

You might think this is the mark of a person who maybe thinks about his own thoughts and changes his mind (the mark of a wise person), but he doesn't seem to do this. You won't find him saying, "I was wrong about x, and past justifications/claims in my books are wrong." In fact he's known for the exact opposite behavior: saying there is nothing wrong with his books. Watching what he does -- selling his books -- shows you what is really thinking.

IMO, he's a grifter and this is him setting up his next grift by mimicking an open-minded contrarian thinker. Screencap this post when he starts his "twitter war" against analytic philosophy and /lit/ gets played again.

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>>14533478
he's not arab, he's PHOENICIAN REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>> No.14533498

>>14533472
>He also thinks Romans > Greeks
Retarded arab

>> No.14533501

>>14533459
>/lit/ loves Taleb
No, /lit/ does not love Taleb. A couple of spammers do, however.

>> No.14533541

>>14533482
Never read him and I saw this years ago.

>> No.14533557

>>14533491
I would larp as something else if I was arab too.

>> No.14533564

>>14533459
There's some good analytic philosophy.

>> No.14533571

>>14533472

Pre-Socratic Greeks > Romans > Post-Socratic Greesks

>> No.14533580

>>14533564
show me

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>>14533580

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>>14533459
who Erudite here?

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>>14533647

>> No.14533699

>>14533459
I'm guessing 'erudite' is an ill informed categorization of continental phiilosophy?

>> No.14533712

>>14533647
No we just faggit here

>> No.14533753

>>14533580
See Analytical Thomism

>> No.14533898

>>14533482
Like Taleb but this is true

>> No.14533921

>>14533459
I hate Taleb but I like analytic philosophy. Strange it's almost like /lit/ isn't self-identical.

>> No.14533922

>>14533580
See Mind and World by McDowell

>> No.14534085

>>14533631
Lewis is undoubtedly a genius but what he achieves in this book is useless to anyone outside his specific sub-field. It's not a good theory of modality, because it's utterly enmeshed in a set of goals that are completely specific to the weird view of language had only by analytic philosophers

>> No.14534186

>>14534085
welcome to analytic philosophy

>> No.14534205

>>14533482
He always took the Gigerenzer stance on psychology/behavorial economics.