Inspired by The Value of Logic in Pratical Life, by JayWalker, I decided to rant about logic.
Logic, in practical life, is, more often than not, what we want it to be. As Taleb underlines repeatedly in his book, The Black Swan, people tend to only look for instances that corroborate what they want to believe [...]
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